The Associated Press
CLAYTON, Mo. | A boy was sentenced to 60 years in prison today for beating and sexually assaulting a St. Louis County neighbor girl when he was 13 and she was 6.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on its Web site, STLtoday.com, that St. Louis County Circuit Judge Melvyn Wiesman rejected sending Sherman Burnett Jr. to a juvenile offender program, where he could have had a chance for probation at 21.
Burnett, now 15, is the youngest inmate ever housed in the St. Louis County jail.
Burnett pleaded guilty Aug. 10 to sodomy, attempted rape, child kidnapping and assault. According to testimony, he recently blamed the 6-year-old, in part, for his misfortune and had denied committing sexual assault in an interview with a state employee.
Brent Buerck, a senior program administrator for the Missouri Division of Youth Services, said Burnett tried to suggest that the victim had caused the Nov. 11, 2005, attack by throwing a rock at him, and denied he tried to rape the child.
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