Rebecca Petty
| Rebecca Petty | |
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| Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 94th district |
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Assumed office January 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Debra Hobbs |
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| Born | c. 1970 Wichita, Kansas, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Children |
Andria "Andi" Nichole Brewer (murdered 1999) Kristin DeMauro |
| Residence |
Rogers, Benton County Arkansas, USA |
| Alma mater | Arkansas Tech University |
| Occupation | Advocate for crime victims and exploited children |
| Religion | Non-denominational Christian |
Andria "Andi" Nichole Brewer (murdered 1999)
Melanie Thompson (Brewer)
Rebecca Petty (born c. 1970) is an advocate for victims of violent crime from Rogers, Arkansas. Her 12-year-old daughter was murdered in 1999. She is also a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for a part of Benton County in the northwestern portion of her adopted state.
Petty was born in Wichita, Kansas.
Petty attended Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dates not available, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice in 2013 from Arkansas Tech University at Russellville, at which she was an inductee of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. She is currently seeking a master's degree in leadership and ethics at the private John Brown University in Siloam Springs in Benton County. She lists her religious affiliation as a non-denominational Christian.
Her daughter, Andria Nichole "Andi" Brewer (1987-1999), was raped and strangled to death in the forest near Mena in Polk County in western Arkansas by Karl Douglas Roberts (born c. 1965), the child's uncle by marriage. On May 24, 2000, Roberts was sentenced to die but is still among some thirty individuals on death row in Arkansas. Petty's former husband, Greg Brewer, physically attacked Roberts in the courtroom during proceedings in the case in December 2014. Roberts, for whom there are questions about his mental competency, is now seeking to waive his constitutional rights and be executed for the crime. At the time of her daughter's murder, she was divorced from Greg Brewer.
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