Boy Gets 60 Years in Prison

(Clayton, Missouri) A 15-year-old boy, Sherman Burnett Jr., was sentenced by St. Louis County Circuit Judge Melvyn W. Wiesman this week to 60 years in prison for kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl. Burnett was age 13 at the time of the attack.

In imposing the lengthy sentence -- Burnett will be ineligible for parole until at least the year 2056, when he is 64 -- Wiesman rejected confining Burnett in a juvenile offender program in Montgomery City, Mo., where Burnett could have gotten a chance at probation as early as age 17.

Apparently, Burnett believes the girl is partly to blame which makes him a very unsympathetic defendant. Consequently, Weisman gave Burnett 20 years for kidnapping, 20 years for assault, 10 years for sodomy and 10 years for attempted rape, all to run consecutively.

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