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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   
      
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