Donny Ray Williams, a former congressional
aide and Obama staffer was spared jail time last Friday April 4th after he
pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting two women, including a
former intern. He was spared jail time because sometime in 2013, someone
attacked him with acid that left him disfigured for life. Guess the court
figured he had received enough punishment because many believe the acid attack
was a payback for the rapes, though he claims the boyfriend of a woman he was
dating did it to him.
According to reports, Donny Ray Williams,
who was once a staffer for the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee, slipped
Ambien into the drink of an intern in 2010 before having sex with her while she
lay unconscious. That same year, he had sex with a woman too inebriated to give
her consent, prosecutors say.
Despite admitting his guilt in December,
D.C. prosecutors on Friday asked that Williams be spared prison time because he
is himself the victim of a crime – the effects of which will mar the remainder
of his life, Washington Post reports.
The decision to give Williams a suspended
jail sentence and 5 years’ probation – which Judge Robert E. Morin reluctantly
agreed to – came despite one of his victim’s request he be given ‘some jail
time.’
‘He gave me a random dose of drugs and risked my life,’ the woman argued in a letter read in D.C. Superior Court last week.
The woman had just moved to Washington as
an intern. She initially warmed to Williams because she believed he could help
her get a leg up on Capitol Hill.
‘After the assault, I moved away, and he
continued to harass me and threatened me to drop the charges. This crime has
caused me fear, pain and a financial burden,’ she wrote.
The other woman Williams raped was not
present for the sentencing, during which Judge Morin said Williams ‘was a
victim of an independent crime and has serious medical issues.’
Williams’ own attack occurred in 2013 as he
walked down a Washington street.
A man approached him and tossed acid in his
face that dripped down his body, he told the Post.
‘I thought I was going to die,’ Williams
recalled Massive second and third-degree burns put
him in the hospital for two months, blinded him in one eye and nearly blinded
him in the other.
Williams believes the jealous boyfriend of
a woman he was dating was behind the assault, the Post reports.
Much of his face is now gnarled and
disfigured and he currently has a massive lump at the top of his skull where
doctors have surgically implanted a rod that stretches his skin in order to
promote healing.
He’s undergone some 20 surgeries and still
faces more ‘life threatening surgeries.
Source: Washington Post/UK Daily Mail
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