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   CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A 28-year-old Highland Hills man was sentenced   
   Tuesday morning by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg   
   after being convicted of raping a total of three women in a two-year period.   
      
   The judge sentenced Christian Burks to a base prison term of 41 years.   
      
   One of Burks’ victims who remained anonymous spoke out in court before he   
   was hauled off to prison.   
      
   “I don’t know what twisted things happened to you that caused you to think   
   you could take residence over someone else’s body... that you can lock a   
   woman in the back seat of your car and decide her fate... I am not an object   
   to be used at your    
   disposal. I am a person, I have a name... goals, passion, a career,” she   
   said.   
      
   Burks was initially indicted in April 2021.   
      
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   Accused of being a serial sexual predator.((Source: Cuyahoga County Sheriff))   
      
   Cuyahoga County prosecutors said the attacks happened from December 2018   
   through December 2020 in Cleveland and in several cases the victims thought   
   Burks was their Uber driver.   
      
   “Christian Burks is a serial sexual predator,” said Cuyahoga County   
   Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley, “He will be held accountable for his   
   actions.”   
      
   Burks pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, three counts of kidnapping, one   
   count of abduction, theft and aggravated theft.   
      
   The first victim, a 20-year-old, was raped at a party on E. 4th Street near   
   Prospect Avenue on Dec. 9, 2018.   
      
   On May 24, 2020, a 23-year-old woman and her male friend ordered an Uber   
   outside a bar on W. 6th Street near Johnson Court.   
      
   Cleveland police said both got into Burks’ vehicle, thinking it was their   
   Uber ride.   
      
   Burks allegedly drove them to a gas station on Lorain Avenue on Fulton Road,   
   and when the man exited to purchase water, Burks drove away with the victim   
   and stole her credit cards, which he allegedly used to make several purchases.   
      
   On May 27, 2020, Burks was accused of arguing with a 24-year-old woman later   
   identified as his girlfriend, near W. 38th Street and Vine Court, and forcing   
   her into his vehicle.   
      
   The victim tried to get out of his car near the Eddy Road exit ramp by I-90,   
   but he allegedly grabbed her by the neck and dragged her back into his car.   
      
   A 21-year-old woman told police on Nov. 15, 2020, she was at a bar near W. 6th   
   Street and Lakeside Avenue when she became separated from her friends, and   
   Burks sexually assaulted her multiple times in his vehicle.   
      
   On Dec. 14, 2020, a 22-year-old woman and her friend ordered an Uber outside a   
   bar on W. 6th Street near Johnson Court.   
      
   The victim ended up getting in the car by herself, and police said Burks   
   sexually assaulted her in another vehicle and drove her to an East Cleveland   
   hotel but fled before police arrived.   
      
   https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/04/09/grand-jury-indicts-serial   
   sexual-predator-raping-women-cleveland-7/   
      
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