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A 25-year-old man was sentenced to over 250 years in prison Friday after a home invasion and robbery that left a woman raped and her boyfriend beaten. The presumptive sentence by Missouri Sentencing Commission guidelines would have been 20 years.

Taurian J. Burton, of Kansas City, had only been out on parole for seven months from another home invasion burglary in Jackson County. In July 2009, Burton and another person invaded the victims' home to steal their plasma TV. Once inside the home, prosecutors said Burton pistol-whipped and bound the pair.

"Our male victim had a skull fracture and a broken finger and was lying unconscious in the living room while his girlfriend was dragged into a bedroom, gang-raped at gunpoint, and sexually assaulted with the barrel of a handgun," Clay County Prosecutor Daniel White said.

The victim told jurors the rape lasted 45 minutes.

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Corey Carter asked for a 1,000-year prison sentence. Judge Shane Alexander sentenced Burton to life in prison for forcible rape, first degree robbery, two first degree assault charges, and three counts of armed criminal action. Burton was sentenced to to 15 years for the second assault and 50 years each for three armed criminal action charges. Judge Alexander ordered the sentences to run consecutively.

"The idea that robbing, raping and pistol-whipping two people is comparable to stealing a couple of television sets is patently offensive," White said. "if anyone deserves a long stretch behind bars, it is the now-convicted sex offender Taurian J. Burton."

Burton is eligible for parole after about 42 years. The prosecutors note that had the Missouri Sentencing Commission guidelines been followed, parole eligibility would have been after 17 years.