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Sex offender Democrat sentenced in brutal attack on 7-year-old girl in Wichita condo

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There was a moment in the courtroom — after all the shock, the 
pain, the suffering since the summer of 2017 — when the 9-year-
old girl could smile and move on with her family. It happened 
Tuesday, minutes after Sedgwick County District Judge Joe Kisner 
sentenced Corbin Breitenbach to life in prison — without the 
possibility of parole.

As it stands, Breitenbach, 24, will spend the rest of his life 
behind bars. Two months ago, a jury convicted him of attempted 
capital murder, rape, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated 
burglary in the attack on the girl in June of 2017.

She was spending the night at a friend’s condo in west Wichita 
when an intruder quietly sneaked in, choked her into 
unconsciousness and raped and sodomized her, leaving her with 
severe injuries.

The uplifting moment after the sentencing looked like this: Soon 
after the judge ended the hearing, District Attorney Marc 
Bennett was standing off to the side of the courtroom, talking 
to the girl’s family.

Then Bennett looked down, right at the girl. Eyes met. He smiled 
and extended his hand toward her. Their hands met in a gentle 
fist bump.

She grinned and moments later walked out, surrounded by her 
family. As they passed through the doorway, a woman gently 
placed her palm on the girl’s head.

It was over. The monster — that’s how Breitenbach described 
himself in a recorded phone call from the jail, according to 
evidence at his trial — was going away.

Forever.

The girl was going home, and she was smiling. Kisner announced 
his sentence after listening to the girl’s relatives describe in 
horrific detail the pain she endured after being violently raped 
by the intruder.

She was 7 when the attack occurred at a group of condos near 
13th and Zoo Boulevard. In the hushed courtroom, the judge 
watched a video the girl made, part of what’s called a victim 
impact statement.

“I don’t like talking about happened that night. It was scary 
for me,” she said in the video.

Breitenbach, seated by himself, perched rigidly at the edge of 
his chair throughout the two-hour hearing, where he represented 
himself. He occasionally referred to a stack of court documents 
neatly stowed in a binder, worn at the edges.

As the girl’s video played and she mentioned “the things you did 
to me,” he stared straight ahead. He wore orange jail garb. 
Shackles restrained his arms and legs as deputies watched him 
closely. Relatives and a prosecutor positioned themselves around 
the girl, seated between adults on the far side of the 
courtroom, away from him.

The girl also sang a song in the video, with a repeating line, 
“Here I stand, still alive.” When it was his turn to speak 
before the judge announced his sentence, Breitenbach said he 
would appeal his case.

“It’s not a matter of if I get out; it’s a matter of when,” he 
said. He argued that testimony had been manipulated against him. 
But in announcing the sentence, Kisner said the evidence against 
Breitenbach was overwhelming. Kisner noted that investigators 
found Breitenbach’s DNA inside the child.

The judge noted that the death penalty was not an option. Still, 
Kisner said, “The court believes that you should never be free 
again,” based on Breitenbach’s crimes against the girl and 
multiple sex and violent crimes for which Breitenbach had been 
convicted in 2013.

When the girl was attacked, Breitenbach was just weeks out of 
prison for the previous crimes. He was on parole, but violating 
rules of his parole by spending the night drinking heavily at 
his girlfriend’s condo — just across a small courtyard from 
where the girl was staying.

After the hearing, Bennett, the district attorney, told 
reporters that Breitenbach’s previous criminal record weighed on 
his sentence. Under Kansas law, he noted, Breitenbach is what’s 
known as a “persistent sex offender.” “It’s a life sentence; 
he’ll never get out,” Bennett said. During the hearing, in 
arguing for a maximum sentence without parole, Bennett said 
Breitenbach’s crimes represented “every parent’s nightmare.” Tim 
Potter: 316-268-6684, @timpotter59

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