KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Monday a Kelseyville man convicted last month of having had sex with a young teenage girl was sentenced to eight years in state prison.
Brian Barrett Stasko, 22, who was convicted of two counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child and two counts of statutory rape, was sentenced to the prison term by Judge Andrew Blum.
“An appeal will be taken from the judgment and sentence,” Stasko’s defense attorney, Barry Melton, told Lake County News.
Stasko was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old girl who had fallen asleep at his home after drinking alcohol last fall, as Lake County News has reported.
Last month, the jury – which deliberated for a day and a half – came back with the guilty verdicts on the four charges, and acquitted Stasko of three counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child, according to Senior Deputy District Attorney Ed Borg.
Borg said Stasko must serve his time in state prison because of the nature of the charges.
Stasko, who has remained in jail since his April arrest, has 234 days credit for time served. He has to serve 85 percent of the eight years because lewd and lascivious acts on a child is a violent felony, according to Borg.
Once Stasko is released from prison, he must register as a sex offender, Borg said.
Borg credited investigating officer Todd Dunia of the Lake County Sheriff's for doing a “great job on a difficult case.”
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