COEUR d’ALENE — A 20-year-old felon who raped a teenage girl just days after he was released from a prison rehabilitation program is going back to the penitentiary to grow up.

It’s not what the judge in the case, or attorneys, wanted to see as an outcome, but they agreed Friday in a Coeur d’Alene District Court that Colton Michael Mayberry has hit the end of the road.

“It’s a fearful prospect, the idea of a young man growing up in prison,” District Judge Lansing Haynes said. “It’s not the best environment for a young man to mature in.”

Haynes sentenced Mayberry to as many as 15 years behind bars, with five of those years mandatory, That means he will not be released until he serves at least five years.

Defense attorney Ben Onasko grudgingly agreed that his client is destined for a prison cell.

“He made his own bed,” Onasko said. “It’s time he lay in that bed.”

Mayberry concurred as well.

The slim 20-year-old, a belly chain snug around his orange jail pajamas, stood up before the court and apologized for what he said were selfish acts that harmed others.

“I feel, through my actions, (the penalty) should be prison,” Mayberry said.

Haynes imposed the sentence for several earlier convictions of eluding, aggravated assault and rape because Mayberry had violated the terms of probation in those cases.

Mayberry was convicted of rape in 2017 after meeting a girl at Super 1 Foods in Hayden, driving her to an unknown residence, raping her and driving her back to the grocery store. After being released from a prison rider program, he again solicited several teenage girls on social media, having sex with one of them. He coerced his grandmother into driving him to meet another teenager at her school to have sex in a bathroom stall.

“We have a serious problem,” prosecutor Stanley Mortenson said. Even after rehabilitation, “the defendant is still attracted to young girls. There is a problem with that. There is a problem with his critical thinking.”

Mortenson said Mayberry has been diagnosed as being autistic, but “I don’t know where on the spectrum he falls... I don’t think we should lose sight of that.”

Mortenson urged the court to impose the five- to 15-year sentence.

Rape carries a sentecne of up to life behind bars.

“He needs to grow up,” Mortenson told the court. “At this point, he needs to grow up in prison.”