A 43-year-old man pleads guilty to 3 counts of sex offense on 3 different children in his Fruitland neighborhood.

PRESS RELEASE
October 21, 2009

A 43-year-old man pleads guilty to 3 counts of sex offense on 3 different children in his Fruitland neighborhood.

This morning, Russell Glen Burnett pleaded guilty to 3 counts of 3rd Degree Sex Offense on two 8-year-olds and an 11-year-old. State’s Attorney Davis R. Ruark says Burnett committed the sex offenses on the three girls in his yard and in his home in April of 2009.
Wicomico County Circuit Court Judge W. Newton Jackson deferred sentencing today. Burnett will be sentenced within 30 days and is currently being held without bond. He is facing a maximum of 30 years in the Division of Correction, 10 years per each offense.

“A serial child molester has been removed from the streets of Wicomico County thanks to the fine police work of detectives assigned to the Child Advocacy Center,” says Ruark.
The State’s Attorney adds Burnett is also awaiting a federal indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Maryland for a number of child pornography offenses stemming from the investigation by the Fruitland Police Department and the Wicomico Child Advocacy Center.

For more information contact:
Carolyn Widdowson or Davis Ruark at 410 – 548 – 4880.