Man gets 336 years for sex assault on teen | Crime

By Chris Michlewicz/Highlands Ranch Hearald

A man convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young girl at the Lone Tree Library will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Scott James Sylvia, 27, was sentenced by a Douglas County District Court judge Sept. 3 to 336 years to life in prison for the 2008 assault in the parking lot of the library. Sylvia was found guilty June 9 of kidnapping, sexual assault, aggravated robbery, first-degree criminal trespass, two counts of second-degree assault and retaliation against a witness or victim.

In a tersely worded overview of the case during the sentencing hearing, presiding judge Paul A. King called Sylvia’s actions against the victim “unimaginable.”

“The crime that you committed on the victim was brutal,” he said. “I cannot imagine the horror she must have felt when you sexually assaulted her, Mr. Sylvia.”

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