A former US Coast Guard has been sentenced up to 200 years in prison for filming himself as he raped an 18-month-old girl in a motel before urinating on her.
Judge Mark Trusock told Eric Devin Master, ‘You are truly an evil individual and we need to make sure that you are never allowed in society’, during the sentencing hearing at Kent County Circuit Court in Michigan on Thursday.
Masters, 29, who was already sentenced to 50-years last month for making sexually explicit videos of children in five counties throughout the state, claimed he had an addiction to child pornography and said he had been a victim of abuse himself. Masters, who pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, was accused of taking the toddler to a motel in 2012, where he tied her arms and legs to bedposts and raped her.
He admitted to assaulting the girl three times over the course of eight days, the Detroit Free Press reported. Masters filmed himself engaging in multiple sex acts with the toddler before urinating on her in a video that he emailed to others in exchange for more child pornography, the FBI said.
The girl’s mother begged the judge to keep Masters locked up, testifying that her daughter is still traumatized at the age of five. The girl, who was sexually abused until she was three, remembers the abuse and has spoken about it, mlive.com reported.
Trusock, who sentenced Masters to between 50 and 200 years on Thursday, said: ‘I want to send a clear message to the Parole Board, when you first come up for parole as a 79-year-old, that I don’t want you out.
‘This incident is one of the most egregious things that I’ve ever had to deal with in dealing with criminal cases for 31 years.
‘There is just no justification, there is just no excuse for this. You are truly an evil individual and we need to make sure that you are never allowed in society.’