Gary Lee Rose showed no regret Thursday as he was sentenced to 50 years in prison, swearing at a Clackamas County prosecutor and joking with his lawyer that now he no longer will have to pay child support.

Rose claimed he was the victim of a jealous 9-year-old girl who wanted to thwart his romantic relationship with the girl's mother. He said he was set up and blamed her for the sexually explicit photos and a video found on his cell phone.

and deliberated three hours before finding him guilty earlier this month on multiple counts of unlawful sexual penetration, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and first-degree sexual abuse.

Prosecutor Melissa Jones asked that Rose be sentenced to 75 years – essentially a life-sentence for the 39-year-old.

"We know he will do this again," she said.

She cited troubling evidence found by investigators, including more than 1,000 images of child pornography stored on his cell phone and his "deviant sexual interests" such as his incest fantasies.

Rose's attorney, Stephen Kelly, argued for a 25-year sentence, the minimum under Oregon law. Kelly said the girl's biological father sexually abused her and received about 15 years prison. Since then, Oregon voters amended the law to increase the penalty for certain child sex crimes.

While Rose's abuse was horrible, it didn't come close what the girl's father did, Kelly said. "Seventy five years is certainly way too long," Kelly said. Someone convicted of murder could face a less severe term, he argued.

"It's the murder of a victim in another fashion," Jones said.

Rose said there was a lot about his case that was misconstrued. Jones took too much out of context, said Rose, without elaborating. He offered no apologies.

Jones noted Rose's "utter lack of remorse."

After the jury unamimously convicted him on all counts, he turned to the girl's grandmother, now her legal guardian, with a message for the girl, who was not in the courtroom.

"Tell her she got what she wanted," said Rose, still maintaining that the child had schemed against him.

The grandmother told Rose he had committed a "criminal act of sick proportions" and that she regretted "the misfortune to come into contact with you."

Jones laid out the case for a 75-year prison term. She highlighted his criminal history – including criminal mistreatment, burglary, witness tampering, unlawful use of a motor vehicle – dating back to 1991.

When Jones mentioned Rose's 2006 conviction for beating his then 8-year-old son, Rose responded with a barnyard epithet.

Circuit Judge Douglas Van Dyk warned Rose to watch his language or he would be removed from the courtroom.

"Can I be removed," said Rose, who seemed willing.

"No, sit there," Van Dyke shot back.

Kelly urged that some mercy be shown. Rose himself was a child sexual abuse victim, molested by a babysitter. The victim in this case "was Mr. Rose 30 years ago," Kelly said.

The fact that Rose was sexually abused was regrettable but gave no license "to make a child suffer what you suffered," Van Dyk said.

"You have an enormous reservoir of self pity," Van Dyk said.

"This community wants no more child victims," Van Dyk said just before announcing the sentence. The message here, Van Dyk said, is "leave our kids alone and if you don't, you'll spend your life in prison."

-- Steve Mayes