The Fort Wayne police started investigating child molesting accusations in December 2022 when the girlfriend of the biological father brought the victim to the police desk. At that point, she was 14. The victim said the abuse started when she was six.

Conjecture and gossip lead the discussion on why young teens, Essix Robinson and his brother, Zy Rel, were in a vacant home on Bowser Avenue on Aug. 23 of last year. The ‘bando,’ as abandoned homes are called, and identified by the boys’ grandmother as 4423 Bowser Ave.,was the scene of a shooting between Essix, then 14, and Jorge Mendez-Cornejo. The shooting left Mendez-Cornejo wounded, according to a news release from the Fort Wayne Police Department.

ssix Robinson is only 15 years old, yet shares the burden of his family on his slim shoulders. He thought he’d found a safe place at an abandoned home in the 4400 block of Bowser Avenue. On Jan. 5, Essix was waived into adult court by Judge Brent Ecenbarger, the county’s juvenile judge.