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A Baltimore County circuit court judge handed a convicted sex offender what’s believed to be the longest sentence of its kind in the state…ever.

Carlos Cortez of Essex will have to serve consecutive 25 year prison terms on each of 4 counts of sexual abuse the Examiner reports.

Cortez was accused of abusing a girl over several years starting when she was 5.

Judge Patrick Cavanaugh has a reputation for long sentences…having given a former Randallstown High student a 100 year sentence in a school shooting case.