Bryant Edward Dulin, 46, was sentenced to 645 years in prison on Tuesday in Burnet County, Texas court

The Granite Shoals, Texas man was convicted the day before for molesting four girls between 2003 and 2016 - including one as young as six years old

Dulin will have to serve 225 years of his sentence consecutively, meaning the earliest he can be released is the year 2243

A 46-year-old man was sentenced to more than six centuries in prison on Tuesday, for molesting four girls over a period of more than a decade.

Bryant Edward Dulin from Granite Shoals, Texas, was given a 643-year term behind bars, 225 of which will be served consecutively - meaning the earliest he can be released is 2243.

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But barring advances in medicine that can extend the human life to age 271, Dulin will most certainly die in prison.

Despite the severity of the allegations levied against Dulin, he somehow managed to attract a girlfriend, and the couple are currently engaged to be married.

Bryant Edward Dulin, 46, was sentenced to 645 years in prison on Tuesday in Burnet County, Texas court

Just two days after his trial started this month, Dulin posted a picture of his fiancee, thanking her for 'standing by my side' and promising 'we will be married soon'.

While inmates can certainly marry, Dulin's plans of spending the rest of his life with the woman he loves has been foiled. The most he can hope for is regular phone calls and prison visits - but he can rule out those of the conjugal kind, as Texas doesn't allow them.

Dulin was initially arrested in December 2016, after a six-year-old victim told authorities that he made her sleep in a bed with him naked.

The victim also said that he touched her 'in such a way that also caused her pain'.

The Granite Shoals, Texas man - who is ENGAGED (pictured above with his fiancee) - was convicted Monday for molesting four girls between 2003 and 2016

Three more victims later came forward, saying Dulin molested them when they were children. The abuse spanned more than a decade, from 2003 to 2016.

In March 2017, two now-adult victims said that Dulin sexually abused them. One, who is now 20, said that Dulin forced her to have sex with him when she was seven- or eight-years-old. The other, now 23, said Dulin forced her to expose her breasts to his friends multiple times as a child. He stopped asking her to do this when she turned 16.

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The fourth victim was 14 years old around May 31, 2016, when she said she had sex with Dulin at a now-closed business in Burnet County.

Dulin faced a total of 13 charges in connection to his four victims.

He was found guilty on 12 of those charges, including nine counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual assault of a child, one count of first-degree super aggravated sexual assault of a child (under the age of six), one count of second-degree continuous sexual abuse of a child and one count of second-degree indecency with a child (by contact).

The only charge the jury found him not guilty of was one count of sexual performance by a child.

The trial started June 11 and wrapped up on June 18, when the jury announced their guilty verdict after five hours of deliberations. He was sentenced the following day.

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During the sentencing hearing, victims spoke out against Dulin, and accused him of even more crimes.

Witnesses said that he had been violent towards women since the early 1990s and abused drugs, according to the Dallas News.

One woman said he kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant with a child that he would later sexually abuse.

Some of these witnesses said they had not come forward with the other allegations because they were afraid of retaliation from Dulin, who has been out on bail since he was initially arrested two years ago.

At the end of the trial, Burnet County District Attorney Sonny McAffee said Dulin was 'one of the most despicable defendants we have ever prosecuted'.

'These jurors had to listen to heart-wrenching facts about a monster that preyed on the young, the weak and vulnerable victims,' McAfee said in a statement. 'Dulin's victims were those that were least able to defend themselves, and he knew it. He threatened those he did hurt with harm to his victims or even with threats to harm his victims' loved ones while he made the victims watch. … I am proud of the message these jurors sent to other potential predators in our community.'