Tulsan gets more than three consecutive life sentences for child-sex crimes
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer on Jul 29, 2013, at 4:02 PM Updated on 7/29/13 at 6:42 PM
Phillip Steven Borden
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A man convicted of nine child-sex crimes was formally sentenced Monday to three life terms plus 120 years in prison.
A Tulsa County jury found Phillip Steven Borden, 43, guilty in June of three counts of rape, five counts of lewd molestation and a single count of forcible sodomy.
Assistant District Attorney Nalani Ching said the verdicts made it clear that the jury doesn’t want Borden to “breathe free air again.”
District Judge Tom Gillert ordered that all sentences run consecutively.
The jury acquitted Borden of one count of lewd acts with a minor. Two other counts were dismissed during the trial.
Borden denied all the allegations.
In addition to three life terms for rape and 20 years for each of the six other offenses, he was fined $90,000.
The victims were two girls who are now teenagers, with one girl involved in all but one of the counts that resulted in a conviction, records show. She ranged in age from 6 to 14 when the offenses occurred between 2000 and 2008, records indicate.
Borden, of Tulsa, was arrested in Mexico while a suspect in this case. He turns 44 on Tuesday and has been in the Tulsa Jail since April 2012, records show.
Mexican authorities and U.S. marshals found him in Cozumel after getting a tip, officials said.
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