An Elizabethtown man was sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of rape and other charges by a jury, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office.
On Feb. 19, Justin Burke was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in a state correctional institution, followed by five years of consecutive probation after being found guilty of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, and aggravated indecent assault.
At the time Burke committed the crimes for which he was found guilty, he was already on probation for assaulting two women in Feb. 2017 at a dorm party, police said.
During the trial, prosecutor Assistant District Attorney Amy Muller said of Burke, “The only way to keep the public, and any woman within arms-length of him, safe, is to put him in prison.”
Judge Howard Knisely deemed Burke to be a sexually violent predator and will require lifetime registration. He must also notify his neighbors about his conviction as a sexually violent predator.
