A Georgia man who kept a teenage girl suffering from Asperger's in captivity for more than a year, denying her food and subjecting her to water torture, will be spared prison but will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Michael Wysolovski, 33, from Georgia, on Thursday pleaded guilty to first-degree cruelty to children and interstate interference with custody.

Police said Hailey Burns, then aged 17, went missing from her Charlotte, North Carolina, home in May 2016. She was found 225 miles away in Wysolovki's home in Duluth 56 weeks later.

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Michael Wysolovski, 33, (left) on Thursday pleaded guilty to first-degree cruelty to children and interstate interference with custody for torturing and starving Hailey Burns (right)

Burns was rescued from Wysolovski's home in Duluth, Georgia (pictured), in 2017 after spending 56 weeks in captivity

During the girl's captivity, Wysolovski, who had first met Burns in a chat room for people suffering from anorexia when she was just 15, kept her locked in a room, forced her to keep a journal that tracked her daily calorie intake and made her perform oral sex on him in exchange for food, according to court documents.

Burns was ultimately rescued after reaching out to a US student living in Romania on Facebook, who, in turn, alerted the FBI.

Wysolovski initially had been charged with rape, aggravated sodomy and false imprisonment, but those counts were later dropped.

In exchange for his guilty pleas to the lesser charges, Wysolovski was handed a 10-year sentence, with eight months to be served in jail and the rest to be spent on probation, reported Gwinnett Daily Post.

Wysolovski, who had already spent eight months in jail before having bond set in February 2018, was given credit for time served. That means he will not have to spend any additional time behind bars.

Court documents said Wysolovski (left) made the Asperger's-suffering teen (right) give him oral sex in exchange for food and made her count calories

Burns was rescued after reaching out to a girl living in Romania on Facebook

Under the conditions of his probation, Wysolovski must register as a sex offender and avoid contact with minors. He also has restrictions on his access to pornography, drugs and alcohol.

Before delivering his sentence, Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Timothy Hamil allowed Wysolovski‘s victim and her parents to present their impact statements.

DailyMail.com typically does not identify people believed to be victims of sexual crimes, but Burns and her family have decided to go public with their story.

Sporting a cropped haircut and clutching a stuffed animal, Burns spoke for two-and-a-half minutes about the agony she had suffered at Wysolovski’s hands, reported WSOC-TV.

‘He manipulated me heavily, taking advantage of my mental illness to push me closer to his desires,’ she said.

When given a chance to speak, Wysolovski (pictured in court Thursday) told the judge he thought he was helping Burns

Burns said the defendant, who reportedly had her call him 'daddy' in their text conversations, pressed her to run away from home and come live with him.

‘The second I left my home my life was ruined,’ she read from her prepared statement. ‘He did unimaginable things to me and irreparably broke my spirit and sense of self.’

Burns spoke at length of the devastating aftereffects of her captivity, revealing to the court that she had developed a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder that had her checking locks, counting steps, and classifying 'everything and everyone' in her life into 'safe' and 'unsafe' categories.

Burns said it took her a year to recover from an eating disorder that was the result of Wysolovski's denying her food in captivity.

'He lowered my self-esteem greatly and led me to believe that I will never be loved, or have a proper life if I gained any weight,' she said.

Burns went on to say that she has developed a fear of water, such as drinking, rain and showers, having been subjected to what she described as water torture.

Hailey's mother, Shauna Burns (pictured), was also given an opportunity to confront her daughter's tormentor, whom she labeled a 'coward'

'I severely mutilated myself hoping I would become unlovable so no one would hurt me again as Wysolovski did. I am permanently disfigured,’ the woman said.

In her statement, Burns told the court that she has been taking medication for depression and has attempted suicide three times since her escape from Wysolovski.

She still has trouble navigating social situations, or even walking into a store on her own, having developed agoraphobia in the wake of her experience.

'The psychological damage Michael Wysolovski had inflicted is beyond measure or explanation,’ she summed up. ‘I cannot explain over a year of systematic abuse and every neurological quirk it has caused. All I hope is that it happens to no other innocent victim.'

Hailey's mother, Shauna Burns, was also given an opportunity to confront her daughter's tormentor, whom she labeled a 'coward' and a 'silver-tongued abuser.'

The young woman's father, Anthony Burns, said his daughter emerged from her captor's home suffering from malnutrition, ringworm and back problems caused by being confined to a dog cage.

Assistant District Attorney Michael DeTardo told Atlanta Journal Constitution that he had consulted the victim and her family before signing off on the plea deal.

He explained that Burns and Wysolovski agreed to enter into a BDSM-type relationship where participants simulate non-consensual sex acts, but over time the man violated the boundaries of their agreement by subjecting Burns to violence against her wishes.

Because of the nature of Burns and Wysolovski’s arrangement, DeTardo said he could not guarantee a rape conviction at trial.

Beyond that, Burns and her family did not wish to go through a jury trial, and their main goal was having Wysolovski register as a sex offender, which Thursday’s sentence accomplished.

When given a chance to speak, Wysolovski told the judge he thought he was helping Burns - a claim Hamil dismissed out of hand.

Hamil also denied Wysolovski’s request to be treated as a first-time offender, which would have resulted in his plea being expunged from his record at the conclusion of his sentence.

‘In my time on the bench I can count on both hands the time I’ve refused to give someone first offender status,’ the judge told the defendant, ‘but there’s something inside me that says this is one of those times.’