A serial intercourse offender allegedly attacked courtroom officers and swore on the decide when he was sentenced to as much as 105 years in jail for a sequence of residence break-ins and sexual assaults.
Suffolk County Choose Katie Rayburn on Tuesday sentenced 60-year-old Ronald Brown to 72 to 105 years in jail for the 2016 South Finish rapes and break-ins.
A jury convicted Brown of 21 prices, together with: aggravated rape, kidnapping, witness intimidation, photographing an unsuspecting nude particular person, and breaking and coming into.
Brown, who has been held with out bail since his October 2016 arrest, reportedly refused to face when the decide handed down her sentence on Tuesday.
“Brown yelled an expletive at the judge and attacked the court officers who tried to bring him out of the courtroom,” the Suffolk DA’s Workplace mentioned in a press release.
Brown dedicated the 2016 crimes solely months after his launch from a 25- to 30-year state jail sentence for the same rape in 1986.
That sentence additionally included crimes Brown dedicated whereas in custody, together with assaulting a correctional officer and speeding the jury field in the course of the trial.
In one of many 2016 crimes, Brown broke right into a basement residence on Clarendon Road — the place he blindfolded, sure and gagged the 2 feminine residents, stole their digital units and different property, and demanded the passwords to the units.
He forcibly raped one girl, pressured her to bathe to clean away potential proof, and instructed her he hated Chinese language folks, in reference to her heritage. He touched the breasts of the opposite girl and threatened to kill each in the event that they instructed anybody.
The courtroom on Tuesday heard sufferer affect statements from 4 of Brown’s victims.
One in every of Brown’s victims referred to his “menacing legacy.”
“We won’t feel truly safe again,” the sufferer mentioned. “No wrought iron bars, no upgraded ADP, no glancing into the window well each time I return home, none of it will replace the feeling of wellbeing that Ronald Brown took from me that night.
“This is his menacing legacy,” the sufferer added. “Fear, suspicion and rage. He is a real and present danger to society. He has illustrated no success at rehabilitation. He has taken no accountability whatsoever and shown not a hint of remorse. He should under no circumstances be allowed the liberty to terrorize another human being, community or society ever again.”
All 12 members of the jury attended the sentencing.
“It is very rare that we have all members of the jury present for sentencing,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned. “I think the reason is clear—they were touched by the bravery of the victims and profoundly moved by what they endured at the hands of Ronald Brown. I commend the survivors for their resilience during this difficult, trying process, from their courage to come forward to their brave testimony at trial and their poignant statements today.”
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