A 45-year-old convicted rapist was sentenced 225 years in prison for three counts of indecent exposure last year. Robert Stearns was found guilty in a jury trial earlier this year of exposing himself to three different women walking through two different Hamilton, Montana parks.

Stearns was sentenced Tuesday to 75 years in prison on each of the three counts of indecent exposure, to run consecutively. "I've never seen such a harsh punishment recommended for a nonviolent crime," said Stearns' attorney James Clapp.

After serving nine years, Stearn was on probation for a conviction in Cascade County in 1997 of two counts of indecent exposure and one of sexual intercourse without consent. In all of the cases, Stearns approached the women and began masturbating, the Missoulian reported.

Stearns confessed to the crimes, in which he exposed himself to three women and chased down the last and forced her to have oral sex with him. He told investigators he has suffered with the compulsion since he was 15-years-old. In 1978 Stearns was charged with an attempted sexual assault on a 63-year-old woman.