Calling it the most egregious case he has overseen, a judge sentenced a Butte man to five 100-year prison terms with no time suspended Thursday for raping two young girls and filming some of the sexual assaults.
Theodore Allen Cherry III, 35, admitted specific sex acts and pleaded guilty in April to two counts of incest, two counts of sexual abuse of children for filming assaults and one count of sexual abuse of children for having child pornography.
Prosecutor Angie Rolando called Cherry a monster Thursday and asked for 100 years with no time suspended on each of the five charges, to run concurrently, meaning together as one.
She said the girls lived in a “house of horrors for years” and are serving a life sentence of trauma because of crimes by Cherry that “offend decency and all human dignity.”
Cherry said he was sorry for the emotional pain he has caused the victims