A serial rapist who sexually assaulted four women within one week has been sentenced to 100 years in prison.
Dexter Bell, aged 26, prowled the streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raping vulnerable women after he engaged them in small-talk.
The youngest was 15.
In November, he was found guilty of six counts of predatory sexual assault.
From April 4 to April 11, 2013, he approached four different women and started conversations. When they engaged him, he would then overpower them by grabbing their arms or hair, pull them to a secluded area, and rape them, according to the New York Post.
In 2008, he had been convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl, but was still loose on the streets in 2013, when he committed his one-man raping spree.
One victim, 25, submitted a victim impact statement to the court before his sentencing in Brooklyn on Monday, saying, ‘What Dexter Bell did to me changed my life forever. Even after two years, I don’t feel as safe. Bell deserves to go to jail for a very long time. Not just because of what he did to me but so he never does this to anyone else ever again.’
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said, ‘This serial rapist, who committed four rapes within one week, including one of a 15-year-old girl, is a sadistic and violent sexual predator who is simply not fit to walk the streets ever again. That’s why he must spend the rest of his life behind bars.’
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