(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man who was originally accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a teenage girl in his residence has been given a 120-day jail term as a condition of a 10-year probationary sentence on a single count of sexual battery.
Two other counts of sexual battery were earlier dropped by the prosecution against Shain Ray Burnett Sr., 43, who pleaded guilty two weeks before he was scheduled to have a March 3 jury trial on a single count, court records show.
In a pre-sentencing investigation compiled for the court, Burnett said that he had been employed as a mechanic with Stillwater Public Schools for 12 years, but was “let go” after his charges were filed in October 2012.
Burnett reported that his brother, David A. Burnett of Stillwater, was convicted in 1999 of lewd or indecent proposals to a child and was currently registered as a sex offender in Payne County, according to the pre-sentencing investigation.
Shain Burnett said that he was a 1989 graduate of Cushing High School and had been married four times, the pre-sentencing investigation said.
Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Larry Kitchel wrote in an affidavit that he was contacted on Sept. 7, 2012, by a Saville Center interviewer who said a 16-year-old girl had made disclosures.
The girl said that while she was 15, Shain Burnett had sexually abused her twice, the affidavit alleged. Those counts were dropped by the prosecution last September, court records show.
The girl said that after she turned 16, Shain Burnett sexually abused her again in September 2012 — and she told her teacher, the affidavit said.
She said that all of the alleged incidents occurred at Shain Burnett’s residence, according to the affidavit.
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