EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man sentenced to 44 years for sexually abusing teenage girls says it’s unfair that he may have to serve a longer term than a fellow jail inmate for the past seven months, a killer who got only 25 years.
Brandon Burge says he has filed an appeal of a jury verdict that convicted him of 12 felony counts of sexual abuse and 15 additional charges, including online sexual corruption of a child and assault.
Burge says he did not kill anybody, unlike Jarrod Pardun, who was sentenced in May to 25 years in prison for murdering his neighbor in Creswell. Burge and Pardun were both inmates at the Lane County Jail before trial.
But a prosecutor said Burge is a predator who plied his teenage victims with alcohol.
