Sentenced: Missouri Man Won’t Be Eligible for Parole for 650 Years For Sexually Assaulting Children

[Sugar Cookie]

In June, a jury found Derek Brett Roberts, 44, guilty of 23 counts including eight counts of sexual trafficking of a child, four counts of first-degree rape, and 11 counts of first-degree sodomy.

On Friday, a Henry County Circuit Court judge sentenced Roberts to 23 life sentences in prison in connection with the investigation.

According to a press release from the Henry County Prosecutor's Office, the charges stem from a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigation that ultimately found multiple files containing child pornography on devices owned by Roberts.

Some of those files included videos created by Roberts in his home involving children under the age of 9.

The prosecutor's office said each sexual trafficking of a child conviction is punishable by a term of life in prison without the possibility of parole until the defendant has served 25 years in prison. Because the victims in this case were under the age of 12, each of the rape and sodomy charges were also punishable by life imprisonment without the possibility of parole until the defendant has served 30 years of such sentence.

The judge, after considering the evidence, sentenced the defendant to 23 life sentences, and ordered the sentences to run consecutively. As a result, Roberts must serve 650 years before he will be eligible for parole.

Clinton man given 23 life sentences in child sex trafficking, rape case

Roberts must serve 650 years before he will be eligible for parole.

www.kmbc.com

 

[Aedia]

Good! I wish he could live for the next 649 years in prison, terrified for his life. Every day feeling the fear he made those innocent children feel. That he would feel the shame the victims of the CP he had felt, the paranoia that everyone else knows what happened to them...except for him, they DO know what he's done. And then, the day before his parole hearing at 650 years, right when he feels hope, someone in prison shanks him.
Too bad. Hopefully some of that can happen anyways.

 

[runninfawn]

a judge that made the right call and didn't give the verdict as concurent but consective

 

[the cat did it]

FINALLY a good judge!!!!

Those poor kids...he robbed them of innocence and childhood, this judge gave him a fitting sentence, other judges need to sit up and take notice of this judges good penalty

 

[cubby]

Finally a judge who does the right thing for the victims.

Let's just hope this sentence doesn't get reversed on appeal, cause you know he will file for an appeal, like all the rest of them he only cares about his own ass,