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   Melvin Earl Farmer Jr. is sentenced in court at the Governor George Deukmejian   
   Courthouse in Long Beach October 22, 2018. Farmer was convicted of 13 felonies   
   including sexual battery by restraint, dissuading a witness, assault, robbery,   
   elder abuse, rape,   
    three counts of residential robbery and three counts of burglary. Photo by   
   Thomas R Cordova.   
      
   A 40-year-old Lynwood man was sentenced Monday morning to more than 400 years   
   in prison for a series of robberies, burglaries and sexual assaults that   
   targeted elderly women in Long Beach.   
      
   As he handed down the sentence, Judge James D. Otto called  Melvin Earl Farmer   
   Jr.’s crimes outrageous. In one case, Farmer severely beat a victim and   
   threatened to stab her with a kitchen knife, the judge recounted.   
      
   “The victims were particularly vulnerable due to their age,” Otto said.   
   Four of the five women were between the ages of 60 and 90, making them an   
   easier target, the judge said.   
      
   In total, Otto sentenced Farmer to 280 years to life in prison plus an   
   additional 143 years for enhancements filed on the charges.   
      
   With a rosary hanging around his neck, Farmer looked unmoved upon hearing his   
   sentencing and the breakdown of the years he is scheduled to serve. At times,   
   he looked around the room but only spoke aloud in response to the judge.   
      
   In July, Farmer was convicted of 13 felony counts including rape, residential   
   robbery, burglary, elder abuse, dissuading a witness, assault and sexual   
   battery by restraint.   
      
   The incidents occurred during a weeklong spree between Feb. 2 and Feb. 9,   
   2017. Authorities said most of his crimes were at a senior housing complex   
   near Atlantic Avenue and Via Carmelitos.   
      
   Jurors hung on a 14th count alleging Farmer raped a 24-year-old woman in the   
   weeks before the spree.   
      
   Victims were able to face their attacker and speak out about the damage done   
   to them during a hearing earlier this month.   
      
   One woman commented on the trauma that was inflicted on her. “I no longer   
   feel safe, especially after dark,” she said in a statement read aloud by a   
   friend.   
      
   The judge called Farmer “a serious danger to society.”   
      
   “It’s hard to believe, sir, that you will ever be paroled for this   
   case,” Otto said.   
      
   No other words were spoken by Farmer except at the end of his hearing while a   
   bailiff escorted him out of the room and into custody. He turned back and   
   locked eyes with two men in the audience.   
      
   “Love y’all”, Farmer said.   
      
   “Love you too,” they said.   
      
   A Lynwood woman, 33-year-old Sophia Yim, was also convicted of helping Farmer   
   in one of the attacks on Feb. 9, 2017. She pleaded no contest to one count of   
   burglary and one count of robbery and was sentenced to five years of probation.   
      
   https://lbpost.com/news/a-danger-to-society-rapist-sentenced-to-   
   23-years-in-prison-for-spree-targeting-elderly-women/   
      
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