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Donna Jou's Killer To Remain Jailed

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A convicted sex offender who admitted to drugging and dumping the body of a 19-year-old student he met online will spend at least another year in jail.

John Steven "Sinjin" Burgess, 41, was set to be released Friday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and a misdemeanor count of concealing the death of Donna Jou of Rancho Santa Margarita.

Burgess said he met Jou through Craigslist, gave her drugs at a party at his home in Palms, then panicked when she died and got rid of her body in the ocean.

Burgess, a convicted three-striker, was sentenced to five years in prison, but only served two at Chino State Prison.

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Jou's family and friends had protested Burgess' release outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. They carried signs asking "Where is Donna?" and "Justice For Donna Jou."

"I'm terrified," Jou's mother, Nili Jou, said. "He's going to do it again. Another mother is going to go through what I've been through and I'm going to go through for the rest of my life."

Jou, who was an honor student at Cal State University San Diego, disappeared in June 2007.

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