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   From: february2025@jail.time   
      
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   A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 115 years behind bars Tuesday for the brutal   
   rape of an 83-year-old widow​ ​–​ ​but was too cowardly to show his   
   face in the courtroom to hear the decision.   
      
   Asa Robert, 20, was found guilty in Dec. 2015 of suffocating, raping, and   
   sodomizing the woman after breaking into her Brighton Beach home during the   
   summer of 2015.   
      
   The widow, whose name is being withheld, was not in court to hear the   
   sentencing​ ​–​ ​as reliving the ​details of the ​rape during   
   Robert’s trial re-traumatized her, prosecutor Olatokunbo Olaniyan told the   
   court.   
      
   A recreant Robert stayed away as well, but because he was scared of the   
   cameras, his defense attorney Samuel Karliner said.   
      
   “My client is choosing not to be present during this proceeding,” Karliner   
   told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent DelGiudice. “[Robert]   
   specifically said he does not want to come out because he does not want his   
   picture taken.”   
      
   Karliner added that Robert “fully maintains his innocence.”   
      
   But DelGiudice, scoffed at Robert’s petulant decision to hide in a cell, and   
   called his conduct “unspeakable.”   
      
   “The basic tenant of civ behavior is to have deference towards those more   
   vulnerable than everyone else, particularly the aged,” the jurist growled.   
      
   “I see no logical reason or any grounds to offer any mercy to this   
   defendant,” DelGiudice said as his eyes rested on the empty chair. “He   
   showed no mercy to any of his victims.”   
      
   Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez commended the sentence, saying it is   
   “necessary to protect the public from a clearly dangerous individual.”   
      
   Robert will again face a jury in February, when he returns to court to be   
   tried on charges of assaulting a police officer.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2017/01/10/man-who-raped-82-year-old-widow-ge   
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