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Serial rapist gets 1,300-year sentence

Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published July 7, 2005


DENVER, COLORADO -- A man accused of raping or beating 10 people in the Denver area, including two 11-year-old girls and their grandmother, confessed Wednesday before a judge who sentenced him to a prison term of more than 1,300 years.

Brent Brents, 36, pleaded guilty to a series of attacks that occurred between October 2004 and Feb. 18 and included sexual assaults on seven women and the two girls.

District Judge Robert Hyatt, who told Brents he caused an "epidemic of fear to the community," ordered the maximum sentence on each of 68 counts, which included sexual assault, attempted murder, kidnapping and burglary.