Oroville >> An Oroville man has been sentenced to more than 400 years to life in state prison for sexually assaulting a child.

Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert Glusman on Wednesday sentenced 30-year-old Cameron Junior Asbury to 400 years to life in prison, plus an additional 66 years.

Glusman in April found Asbury guilty of 53 counts of various charges of sexual assault upon the child, who was younger than 10 years old and a relative of Asbury’s.

The charges included multiple counts of lewd acts upon a child, sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child, and oral copulation with a child.

Prosecutors said there was photographic evidence of each alleged count.

Glusman at sentencing said Asbury’s crimes involved great violence and bodily harm against the child. They were crimes the child would likely suffer from for life.

“There are certain cases that are just very disturbing,” the judge said. “No matter how much you try to put it out of your brain, it won’t go.”

Asbury did not address the court during his sentencing.

Asbury’s attorney, Jodea Foster, unsuccessfully argued at sentencing that the prison time attached to several of his client’s charges should be served concurrently instead of consecutively.

The length of the sentence could be among the longest handed down in Butte County, the prosecutor, deputy district attorney Jennifer Dupre-Tokos, said outside of court. And it is the longest sentence in a case the veteran prosecutor has been involved in.

“I believe it was the appropriate sentence,” Dupre-Tokos said.

She added: “This is a tragic case all the way around — everyone involved. It’s torn a family apart. It’s changed this family and individuals in it forever. And it’s just sad.”

Asbury’s alleged conduct happened between late June and early July in 2017, prosecutors have said.

Videos and photographs taken by Asbury of his sexual assault of the child were ultimately discovered by the victim’s mother on an online cloud service, prosecutors said.

Asbury’s family reported him to the Butte County Sheriff’s Office.

A part of Asbury’s defense, according to court documents, suggested that a brain injury he suffered in February 2017 may have been associated with his sexual assault of the child.

It was a defense that prosecutors said did not convince the court at Asbury’s trial.

Asbury suffered a head injury during the Oroville Dam spillway evacuations on Feb. 12, 2017, when he was the victim of a carjacking and run over by his own pickup truck.

The carjacking suspect, a 28-year-old Magalia man, allegedly deliberately ran over Asbury in a cul-de-sac near the 7-Eleven store on Monte Vista Avenue off Lincoln Boulevard south of Oroville.

Asbury was subsequently flown to a hospital by helicopter with severe head injuries.

The carjacking suspect was ultimately sentenced to 13 years in state prison on charges related to the incident.

Asbury remained in custody.

Contact reporter Andre Byik at 896-7760.