Before being sentenced to 41 years in prison for the rape of a Lynchburg woman, Rasaan King apologized to everyone but his victim.
Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Rebecca Wetzel Friday told the judge King and other men tied up the victim in her home on Aug. 17, 2009 at gunpoint and forced her into her bedroom.
While the other men pilfered her home for things to steal, Wetzel said King beat her with a pistol; sexually assaulted her with it, then raped her.
The woman’s fiancé’s children were captive in an adjoining room, she said.
“The real apology in this case belongs to (the victim) and the children,” Judge Patrick Yeatts said.
At trial, King claimed he and the woman had been having consensual sex and that she was lying to protect her relationship with another man.
Defense lawyer William Quillian argued Yeatts should have considered a childhood diagnosis of hyperactivity and that King’s mother was murdered in front of him when he was a toddler. Quillian asked for the judge to cut a decade from the jury’s recommended sentence of 41 years.
Wetzel said the victim now suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sleeps during the day because she is afraid.
The December convictions came after an earlier hung jury and mistrial in September. King, 23, has past convictions for robbery and carnal knowledge of a minor.
He was sentenced to 12 months for assault and battery, two years for attempted robbery, three years for abduction, five years for burglary, 10 years for object sexual penetration and 20 years for rape.
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