A Denver jury has found Bret Lee Luckett Thompson guilty of kidnapping and sexual assaulting an 8-year-old girl.

Thompson, 28, who was born in jail, now faces up to life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 30.

Jurors, who took only an hour and a half to reach a verdict, had no comment as they left the courtroom Monday. Nor did Thompson's attorneys.

After the verdict, Allison Rocker, one of two prosecutors on the case, thanked the jury, and the "little victim."

The child, now 10, testified at the trial, and she began crying as she pointed to Thompson and said he was the man who grabbed her out of an alley where she was playing with a friend.

"Her strength was well beyond her age," Rocker said. "She went through an awful thing," and was able to confront the man who did it to her.

"Her family doesn't have to worry about him being back on the streets," Rocker said.

The girl testified that she and a friend were walking her friend's chihuahua when Thompson lured her to a Dumpster by asking her to help him put a cardboard TV box into a trash bin. He lifted her up to drop the box in, and then forced her into the back of his van, and covered her with a coat. She repeatedly cried for her mother and at one point she lifted her pinky finger and persuaded her kidnapper to swear he wouldn't hurt her.

Thompson drove her to the Aurora home of his foster mother, where he raped her. He then drove back to west Denver and dropped her off at a gas station.

Attorneys for Thompson, 28, had argued in the week-long trial that he was legally insane on June, 2, 20111, when the act was committed.

Their argument centered on whether his horrific childhood and the abuse he suffered left him with a psychiatric condition that causes him to essentially black out while conscious and do things that he later has no memory of.

His attorney, Natalie Frei, told the jury that Thompson has several psychological conditions, including dissociative identity disorder, once known as multiple personality disorder, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. All resulted from childhood trauma, she said.

Thompson was arrested in New Jersey following a nationwide hunt.
