LA (Associated Press) – As a result of the rapes of two women twenty years ago, a court on Thursday sentenced “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson to 30 years to life in prison.
The 47-year-old Masterson was sentenced by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo after the ladies spoke about the trauma they had endured and the anguish brought on by the upsetting recollections in the years that followed.
The actor, who has been detained since May, was in a suit as he sat in court. Masterson silently listened to the women as they spoke.
One of the victims Masterson raped claimed, “When you raped me, you stole from me,” in 2003. “A theft of the spirit is what rape is,” a witness said.
You are absolutely violent, pitiful, and disturbed, she said. “The world is a better place without you here”
According to the other victim of Masterson’s rape, he “has not shown an ounce of remorse for the pain he caused.” “I knew he belonged behind bars for the protection of all the women he came into contact with,” she said to the judge. I’m upset and sincerely apologetic. I wish I had called the cops on him sooner.
Prosecutors retried Masterson on all three counts earlier this year after an initial jury was unable to reach convictions on three counts of rape in December and a mistrial was declared.
This time, Masterson was convicted of two counts on May 31 by a jury made up of seven women and five men. At the height of his celebrity from the Fox network sitcom “That ’70s Show,” Masterson was the target of two separate attacks in 2003 that took place in his house in the Hollywood region.