A prior sex offender who repeatedly abused a Platte County girl has been sentenced to prison without eligibility for parole until at least the year 2173.

Jason D. Wright, 40, will die behind bars after being sentenced last week for three counts of statutory sodomy.

Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd said, “This man was a serial child molester. Tragically, this victim was not his first. But she will be his last.”

During the three-day trial, the victim testified that Wright sexually abused her in his bedroom almost every day from the ages of 13 to 15 when she came home from school.

When she was 16, the defendant crept into her room at night and sexually abused her on two occasions.

The victim said Wright would often put a blanket or pillow over her head while he abused her. The assaults lasted approximately 30 to 45 minutes.

Because Zahnd’s office charged Wright as a predatory sex offender, his only possible sentence was life in prison. However, Judge Abe Shafer had the authority to set the date Wright would become eligible for parole.

Shafer ordered Wright to spend 80 years in prison before parole eligibility on each of two counts of first degree statutory sodomy and also sentenced Wright to the maximum seven-year sentence for second degree statutory sodomy. Shafer ordered those sentences to run consecutively, resulting in a minimum 160-year prison term before Wright will become eligible for parole. The net result: Wright could first be released from prison in 2173.