Roughly two months after he admitted to raping several young victims, including one infant, and recording video of some of the acts, a Malta man is sentenced to state prison. Matt Hunter reports from Saratoga County Court.

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Marshall Gaudet sat quietly as the words of his victims were read inside the Saratoga County Courthouse Wednesday.

"I trusted him,” said the statement of one 16-year-old girl. “He violated not only my body but my trust."

"You are not a human but a monster,” said another 16-year-old, who never met Gaudet privately but said she was contacted by him after he stole her cell phone from a store she visited while he was an employee there. “The things you threatened me with while you tried to contact me made me scared to go in public for months."

Read by a prosecutor, another statement was written by the mother of Gaudet's youngest victim, an infant the Malta man sexually assaulted over a three-year period. During their investigation, sheriff’s deputies found footage on Gaudet’s computer and cell phone that showed him raping the young girl.

"It takes a real monster to harm an innocent and defenseless child,” the mother wrote. “It makes it worse that he’s family."

First arrested in the summer of 2016 after a 16-year-old came forward, Gaudet originally faced more than 50 charges when more than 20,000 images of child pornography were found on his computer.

"The facts of this case involve four victims from a toddler to a teen,” Saratoga County Assistant District Attorney Michele Schettino said. “There are countless other victims who chose not to come forward."

This October, the 31-year-old pleaded guilty to predatory sexual assault against a child, rape in the first degree and two counts of possession of a sexual performance of a child.

"The word 'predator' or 'monster' is too gentle of a term for the man that sits before us today,” said Schettino, who is the bureau chief of the office’s sex crimes unit. “He is the very definition of danger."

"There is no lesser form of human than you," Judge James Murphy said before delivering his sentence.

Calling it the most "bone chilling" crime he's seen during his three decades working in the criminal justice system, Murphy, the county’s former district attorney, sentenced Gaudet to 25 years to life in prison.

"I hope to never understand the evil you have inside you that causes you to do something like that," Murphy said.

When given the chance to speak, Gaudet stayed silent. Murphy, prosecutors and Gaudet's victims all expressed they hope he's never a free man again.

"You have to deal with the consequences of your actions, and I hope they haunt you for the rest of your life," the 16-year-old victim said.