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Peter Jacob Inouye, 26, is sentenced in Olympia, Wash. on Jan. 6, 2009 to 60 years in prison for raping an 11-year-old girl in her bedroom in 2007.

OLYMPIA, Wash. – A man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl at knifepoint in her bedroom two years ago will spend at least 60 years in prison.

Peter Jacob Inouye, 26, was found guilty of three counts of first-degree rape while armed with a deadly weapon, one count of first-degree burglary while armed with a deadly weapon with sexual motivation, and one count of second-degree assault of a child while armed with a deadly weapon with sexual motivation.

“I was just a child and he took away my innocence in just 20 minutes,” the victim, now 13, told the judge at sentencing. She also blasted Inouye for not taking the stand during his trial.

The sentences for all five counts will be served consecutively, so the earliest Inouye could be paroled is in 60 years.

The judge said the reason for the exceptionally long sentence was because the child was raped three times during the Feb, 5, 2007 incident, so the judge sentenced Inouye on all three rapes.

“I believe that any fair-minded person looking at this situation would determine that one violation is horrendous, but a second and a third violation cannot simply be disregarded because of the horrendous nature of the first. Each is a separate incident,” said Thurston County Judge Gary Tabor.

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At Inouye's sentencing, the victim, now 13, blasted Inouye for not taking the stand at his trial to explain himself.

At the trial, the girl testified that she thought she was going to be killed when Inouye attacked her.

Inouye was initially identified as a person of interest after detectives learned he had been at the victim's home for an event to help the girl’s family after her father died.

Police were later able to confirm Inouye was their man using a DNA test of his saliva. Inouye had spat in the street near his parents' home.

Another man was initially arrested for the rape, but he was cleared by DNA evidence.

The girl's family no longer lives in the home.