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Burim Bezeri, Adrian Missbrenner and Robbins were charged with the assault of the Naperville girl, then 16, during a night of heavy drinking at Missbrenner's home. Sonny Smith was accused of videotaping the incident. Prosecutors offered evidence in the case that the girl was provided alcohol, then woke up naked in bed and didn't remember what had happened. Two days later she went to police.

Bezeri, in statements to police, admitted spitting on the girl while she lay unconscious and putting a lighted cigarette inside her body. Missbrenner and Robbins were acquitted of assault charges in the case. Smith was convicted of manufacturing child pornography.

Final suspect sentenced in alleged rape on video
By Art Barnum
Tribune staff reporter
April 13, 2007, 8:17 PM CDT

The last of four young men accused in the reported rape of a teenage girl in a Burr Ridge incident caught on videotape in 2002 pleaded guilty Friday to misdemeanor assault and bail violation and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Burim Bezeri, 21, of Lyons had been charged with 60 counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and 38 counts of criminal sexual assault before fleeing to Europe in 2004. He returned to the U.S. in December and was charged with violating bail.

Under the plea deal, the felony sex assault charges were reduced to a single count of misdemeanor battery for which Bezeri will serve 1 year in Cook County Jail. After that, he will serve 4 years in state prison for violating bail, a felony, prosecutors said.

If convicted of the original charges, he had faced between 28 and 75 years in prison, said his attorney, Patrick Campanelli....

Bezeri appeared Friday before Cook County Judge Kerry Kennedy at the Bridgeview Courthouse in shackles, wearing an orange jail-issued jumpsuit and escorted by five deputies. About 10 supporters were in the courtroom, including Missbrenner's mother, Dobrila.

"I'm happy it's over. I'm relieved," said Bezeri's mother, Nushe, hugging Dobrila Missbrenner.

Burim Bezeri, Adrian Missbrenner and Robbins were charged with the assault of the Naperville girl, then 16, during a night of heavy drinking at Missbrenner's home. Sonny Smith was accused of videotaping the incident. Prosecutors offered evidence in the case that the girl was provided alcohol, then woke up naked in bed and didn't remember what had happened. Two days later she went to police.