A registered sex offender from Florence, Colorado, will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Fremont County judge sentenced him to 3,180 years in prison for multiple counts of sexual assault on a child.
Garland Root Sr., 65, pleaded guilty in July to 53 counts, including for sexual assault on a child by a person of trust, sexual assault on a child to form a pattern of abuse, sexual exploitation of a child, invasion of privacy for sexual gratification, and promotion of obscenity to a minor, according to The Canon City Daily Record.