A former CIA employee has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the US for drugging and sexually assaulting more than 20 women. According to the US Department of Justice, the 48-year-old lured unsuspecting women to his government-rented apartment while abroad, drugged them and sexually assaulted them. Brian Jeffrey Raymond also filmed the attacks.
The CIA man from California allegedly abused 27 women from five countries over a period of 14 years. After Raymond learned of the criminal investigation against him, he tried to delete the numerous photos and videos of his atrocities.
“Betraying the government and country”
“He is clearly a sexual predator,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Washington said after handing down the maximum sentence. “With his criminal actions, he has undoubtedly betrayed his government and his country.”
Raymond, now gray-haired and bearded and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, sighed as the verdict was read. In court, he apologized to his victims and said he took “full responsibility for my unconscionable actions,” the Washington Post quoted him as saying.
“I know that nothing I say can erase what I have done, but I apologize from the bottom of my heart and I am deeply sorry,” Raymond said. “This is not who I am, but it is what I have become and I am devastated,” he said.
$260,000 in compensation for victims
According to the judge, the sentence pronounced on Wednesday ensures that the perpetrator will spend a significant part of his life behind bars and will be listed as a sex offender for life. In addition to the prison sentence, the man will be placed on supervision for life and must pay $260,000 in restitution to the victims.
Memories of autumn in France
This is reminiscent of a gruesome case currently before a court in France, in which a 72-year-old man is alleged to have repeatedly drugged his now estranged wife for almost a decade.
The woman was then allegedly raped by strange men in front of his eyes. The fifty suspects and their husbands risk twenty years in prison for the abuse.
Source: Krone
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