Zack Sinclair, Mel Gibson stalker, was sentenced Wednesday to a maximum of three years in California state prison and recommended for psychiatric treatment as part of his prison term.

Sinclair became obsessed with Mel Gibson after his movie "The Passion of the Christ" and sent him 12 letters, approached Gibson in the church to ask him to pray and turned up at Gibson's Malibu mansion.

Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Debra Archuleta said, per City News Service, that Sinclair has "an ongoing problem that we are going to try to deal with head-on," and she hoped the forced hospitalization would help him "get back on a right path."

Mel Gibson was not in court when the sentence was written.