Larry Lorenz Burg, his hands and feet shackled and his eyes behind a thick pair of glasses, sat stoically in a courtroom Friday as the mother of a preteen girl he molested described the horror the girl experienced at his hands. The 59-year-old, gray-haired defendant not once turned to face the woman describing him as a "monster."

Choked with tears, the woman said her daughter explained in a note what went through her mind while Burg molested her in his trailer home.

"I was thinking what would happen next. Will I be alive? Will my family be OK?" the girl wrote. "I wonder why God wasn't there to help me. I thought he was a nice, gentle person. I was wrong, wrong, wrong."

The only glance Burg gave the family members and friends of his victims came when he shuffled into the courtroom from a side door at the start of the sentencing hearing.

The only words "Grandpa Larry" -- the name some of his victims called him -- uttered in open court came when Natrona County District Judge Scott Skavdahl asked if he had anything to say.

"No sir, thank you," he replied.

Minutes later, he was sentenced to 230 years behind bars for sexually abusing seven elementary-age girls between July 2004 and January 2009.

District Attorney Michael Blonigen told the court that in 26 years as a prosecutor, "I can't think of another case where there was this many victims with this level of depravity."

Police began to investigate Burg in January after one of the seven victims accused him of sexually abusing her and a friend inside his westside home. The girl, who was between the age of 10 and 14, told investigators Burg supplied them alcohol and cigarettes and showed them a pornographic video before abusing them.

Investigators seized sexual items and movies described by some of the girls during a subsequent search of Burg's trailer home in Paradise Valley. Clothing, bedding and beer cans were also taken.

One girl told investigators Burg would lock the door to the home before he did "nasty things," a detective testified at a hearing in March. Other girls reported being threatened by him.

Prosecutors initially charged him with six counts of sexual abuse of a child. In all, 26 counts were eventually filed against Burg.

The unemployed truck driver agreed to a plea deal in July, pleading guilty to seven of the counts in exchange for 19 of them being dropped.

On Friday, Skavdahl described the acts to which Burg pleaded guilty as "unspeakable."

"The facts of this case are as horrific a thing as I've ever seen," he said. "The things he took from these girls are irreplaceable."

The Star-Tribune does not identify victims of sexual abuse.

Addressing the court before sentencing, Blonigen described how after molesting one of the girls, Burg gave the victim a copy of the movie "WALL-E."

"It's amazing to me that anyone could take a girl's innocence and then send her out the door with a Disney movie," the prosecutor said.

Blonigen added that Burg, who has been incarcerated since January, has "expressed no remorse" for the crimes.

Senior Assistant Public Defender Kurt Infanger, who represented Burg, said his client has simply chosen to use his right to remain silent during his court proceedings. Infanger said he hoped the court wouldn't hold that against Burg, who, he said, "has accepted his fate."

"Any sentence that is imposed today is, quite frankly, symbolic," Infanger said. "He is going to spend the rest of his life in prison."

"I'm not sentencing him because he remained silent," Skavdahl said. "I'm sentencing him because he molested seven children."

Of the approximately 20 family members and friends of victims who attended the sentencing, only one addressed the court, the rest choosing to write letters.

"We only hope that in time the memory of Larry Burg will be forgotten," the mother who spoke said. "We hope that this monster will never be able to abuse another child.

"We hope that Larry Lorenz Burg will be alive in a cold prison cell for the rest of his sick, sad life."

After the roughly 30-minute-long hearing, Blonigen praised the Casper Police Department for its investigation of the case. Prosecutors were able to get a guilty plea because the case against Burg included DNA evidence, medical evidence and physical evidence.

"That's what we can do if these things get reported," he said.

Reach crime reporter William Browning at (307) 266-0534 or at william.browning@trib.com.