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A erstwhile CIA serviceman has been sentenced to 30 years successful situation for drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women portion connected duty successful the US and overseas.
Over a 14-year period, Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, lured women to his authorities flat to maltreatment them, the US Attorney's District of Columbia Office said.
The FBI's associated probe recovered hundreds of photographs and videos - dating backmost to 2006 - of astatine slightest 24 nude oregon partially nude women who were unconscious oregon incapable of consenting.
Raymond was caught erstwhile a bare pistillate screaming for assistance was seen connected the balcony of his Mexico City residence successful May 2020. He had been moving for the US embassy astatine the time.
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US lawyer Matthew M Graves said Wednesday's sentencing "marked him arsenic a enactment offender for life".
The erstwhile quality work worker was a "predator" who "lured unsuspecting women to his government-leased housing", wherever helium drugged, stripped, sexually abused and photographed them, Mr Graves added.
There were much than 500 images recovered connected his devices. The recordings, taken betwixt 2006 and 2020, amusement Raymond touching and manipulating the victim's bodies for hours.
In immoderate cases, our US spouse CBS reports, helium was seen straddling and groping his unconscious victims. He opened their eyelids astatine times and stuck his fingers successful their mouths.
After learning astir the transgression investigation, helium attempted to delete the pictures and videos.
Nicole Argentieri, a elder justness section official, said the verdict showed it doesn’t "matter wherever those violations hap oregon who commits them".
Raymond admitted to drugging and creating obscene worldly with 28 non-consenting women, and drugging different two.
In November 2023, the California autochthonal pleaded blameworthy to 1 number each of intersexual abuse, abusive intersexual contact, coercion and enticement, and proscription of obscene material.
As portion of his plea agreement, Raymond further admitted to engaging successful non-consensual intersexual acts with 4 women and non-consensual intersexual interaction with six women.
Raymond met the women done assorted dating apps, and past drugged them portion serving vino and snacks. Most of the women successful his photos and videos could not retrieve their clip with him.
During his employment by the government, helium lived and worked successful galore countries including the US, Peru and Mexico.
In 2021, the FBI and the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) - who conducted a associated probe - asked for the public’s assistance successful seeking further accusation pertaining to Raymond, and immoderate imaginable victims.
At the time, the US Embassy successful Mexico said immoderate of the women successful the photos and videos had not been identified.
At the sentencing, the FBI’s adjunct manager successful charge, David Sundberg thanked "the brave women who shared accusation that furthered this investigation".
Some said they lone learned what had happened to them aft the FBI showed them photos of the assaults, CBS reports.
Several victims - identified lone by numbers - gave interaction statements successful court. Many of the women stared Raymond down arsenic they near the stand.
One said: "I anticipation helium is haunted by the consequences of his actions for the remainder of his life".
In summation to his 30-year situation sentence, the justice ordered a beingness of supervised merchandise and ordered him to wage $260,000 (£195,855) successful restitution.
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