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   Deonte Lawson   
      
   About a year and a half after he and two teens forcibly kidnapped a woman   
   outside her Uptown apartment and gang-raped her, Deonte Lawson is headed to   
   prison and never getting out again.   
      
   The 24-year-old Minneapolis resident was sentenced on Thursday to life in   
   prison without the possibility of parole.   
      
   According to a release from the Hennepin County attorney's office, the   
   sentence is the result of a grand jury indictment that allows for a life   
   sentence "for particularly heinous sex crimes or a pattern of sex crimes."   
      
   It's a fitting description for what happened to the victim the night of Oct.   
   15, 2017.   
      
   Charging documents say she was getting something out of the trunk of her car   
   outside her apartment when three young men approached and forced her to get   
   into the vehicle at gunpoint.   
      
   They drove to a White Castle for food — using her credit card to pay for it   
   — while she was in the backseat, and then took her to a "secluded, wooded   
   area," where she was forced to perform sex acts on the trio.   
      
   She was also held by two of them while the other raped her. Afterwards, they   
   took her to a remote, rural area in Washington County, where she managed to   
   convince them to stop for gas — and used this moment to escape.   
      
   You can read more about her harrowing ordeal right here.   
      
   The sentencing   
   At Thursday's sentencing, a victim advocate read the woman's impact statement,   
   and it did not mince words about Lawson and the things he did that night.   
      
   She said that the defendant had taken away her "drive and outgoing   
   personality" and replaced it with anxiety, post-traumatic stress syndrome and   
   other physical and emotional scars."   
      
   “I am smarter, braver and stronger than Mr. Lawson ever counted on,” she   
   wrote in the statement.   
      
   "I am a survivor. And I know I am not his first victim, but I am going to make   
   damn sure I am his last. Mr. Lawson is nothing more than a monster. I looked   
   him in the eyes during my testimony and I saw the cold, evil, lifelessness I   
   remember seeing in    
   Oct. 2017.”   
      
   Lawson's two accomplices, who were 16 and 17 at the time, have also been   
   convicted in the case and are both expected to receive 12-year prison   
   sentences.   
      
   All three were convicted with the help of DNA evidence.   
      
   https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/leader-in-kidnapping-g   
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