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   Ble Kore enters the courtroom, Feb. 27, 2020, at the Arapahoe County   
   Courthouse. He was sentenced to 12 years to life in prison for two felony   
   counts of sexual assault. Photo by Philip B. Poston/Sentinel Colorado   
      
   AURORA | A serial rapist convicted of sexually assaulting two Overland High   
   School seniors over the course of several hours in September 2018 has been   
   sentenced to more than a decade in prison.   
      
   Arapahoe County District Court Judge Andrew Baum on Thursday sentenced Ble   
   Kore, 25, to 12 years to life in prison for a pair of felony sexual assault   
   charges. Jurors convicted Kore on the two counts following a five-day trial in   
   December.   
      
   A native of Ivory Coast, Kore raped a 17-year-old girl after picking her up as   
   she was walking home from school on Sept. 13, 2018, according to court   
   documents.   
      
   Kore pulled up beside the girl and told her “he had someone watching her   
   mom,” which prompted her to get into the passenger’s seat of the car,   
   according to an arrest affidavit. Kore then drove to the guest parking lot of   
   the girl’s own apartment    
   complex, climbed over the vehicle’s center console and raped her in the   
   passenger’s seat.   
      
   “Mr. Kore is the monster of every parent’s nightmare,” Senior Deputy   
   District Attorney Danielle Jaramillo said at the sentencing hearing.   
      
   Kore proceeded to rape a second 17-year-old girl in the same car, a black   
   Volkswagen Pasat, shortly after the first assault. Police determined Kore   
   picked up the second girl as she left guitar practice, parked nearby and raped   
   her.   
      
   “The defendant became a serial rapist in a matter of hours,” Jaramillo   
   said. “The time it takes to watch a football game.”   
      
   Both girls described their attacker as a black man with dreadlocks or braids   
   who spoke with an accent. They also noticed the word “Roni” tattooed on   
   the right side of his neck, according to court documents.   
      
   Neither girl said they knew the man, though he called at least one of them by   
   her first name.   
      
   “I can’t think of a much more egregious sexual assault,” Jaramillo said.   
   “But we don’t have one, we have two … their innocence was taken from   
   them.”   
      
   Investigators linked Kore to the crime using expedited DNA testing conducted   
   by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.   
      
   Kore has an extensive criminal record dating back five years, according to CBI   
   records. In October 2013, he was sentenced to one year of probation for a   
   domestic violence incident in which he was charged with multiple counts of   
   assault. A slew of    
   additional traffic and assault charges filed against Kore in 2016 were   
   dismissed, records show.   
      
   A French interpreter accompanied Kore to nearly all of his court proceedings   
   over the past 17 months even though he previously waived his need for an   
   interpreter and a judge determined Kore was “able to understand (the)   
   proceeding,” according to    
   court notes.   
      
   Kore’s public defender, Elsa Archambault, indicated he plans to appeal his   
   conviction.   
      
   Kore unexpectedly addressed the court at the conclusion of the hearing Feb.   
   27. He appeared at the hearing wearing a black suit with a gold tie while   
   shackled at the wrists and ankles.   
      
   “I just want the court to give me mercy so I can be more productive in my   
   life moving forward,” Kore said through a French interpreter.   
      
   District Attorney George Brauchler condemned Kore’s comments from the   
   defense table.   
      
      
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