By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 60-year-old Stillwater woman was given a six-year prison term followed by four years of probation Wednesday for neglecting her three grandchildren, ages 18 months, one year and four years, who lived in a feces-filled trailer with her, her son and his wife, along with multiple animals last year.
Robin Jean Kittle, who had pleaded guilty on July 19 to three counts of child neglect to avoid a July 22 jury trial, was given three concurrent sentences by Payne County Associate District Judge Michael Kulling at a hearing Wednesday, court records show.
Her daughter-in-law, Lindsey Nichole Pratt, 28, who has also used the surname of Kittle, had been convicted on July 17 by a Payne County jury of neglecting her three young children. Jurors recommended three years each, which were ordered to run consecutively in prison, for neglecting her four-year-old girl and one-year-old boy — plus four years for neglecting her 18-month-old baby, the latter sentence of which was suspended by District Judge Phillp Corley in August. She was ordered to register as a violent offender.
In September, Pratt’s husband, Steven Zackariah Kittle, 36, who had pleaded guilty to all of his charges without an agreement with the prosecution regarding his penalty, was given prison terms totaling 33 years for neglecting the three children and for sexually abusing the four-year-old. Judge Kulling also ordered him to serve 10 years of probation on his release from prison and to register as a sex offender.
According to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Sgt. Sherae LeJeune, who assisted Detective Mary Kellison in the case, an investigation began in March of 2023, when the four-year-old girl “disclosed the sexual assault to her grandparents during a visit, which prompted the intervention by DHS and law enforcement. The children would continue to be neglected had (the girl) not disclosed at the first opportunity.”
The girl and her brother have been placed with their biological father and have lived with him and his grandparents since the day their conditions came to light, according to court testimony. The youngest child has been placed in a relative’s home, which was approved by both DHS and the Pawnee Indian tribe, according to court testimony.
