PITTSBURGH—A Pittsburgh man will spend 15 to 45 years in state prison for his role in a home invasion robbery in which he also sexually assaulted a woman while her 2-year-old son was present.

Twenty-three-year-old Terry Eugene Shields has been sentenced by an Allegheny County judge on Friday on charges including burglary, aggravated indecent assault and robbery.

Police say Shields and two other men forced their way into the woman's home on November 2008 and beat up the woman's roommate.

Shields assaulted the woman while the other men were ransacking the house for money.

Police didn't arrest Shields until February 2009, after the woman recognized him as her attacker when she saw him walking down the hall of Pittsburgh Municipal Court when she was dropping off a friend for a hearing.