Rapist To Spend 20 Years Behind Bars
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A man who says he has had sex with 800 to 900 women over the past seven years is sentenced Thursday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A man who said he has had sex with 800 to 900 women over the past seven years was sentenced Thursday.
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Edwin “Gene” Zimmerman, 47, was sentenced to 20 years in prison without the chance for parole.
He was sentenced in Franklin County Common Pleas Court on two first-degree felony rape charges and one attempted rape charge.
Judge Richard Frye also fined him $35,000 and labeled him as a sexual predator.
He pleaded guilty to those charges Monday, June 22.
He originally was charged with one count of rape and one count of abduction.
Zimmerman, 46, was arrested Thursday, July 3, 2008, after two women said they were abducted for sex.
When he was arrested, Zimmerman told investigators he had slept with 800 to 900 women during the past seven years.
Investigators said Zimmerman claimed to have targeted homeless women and prostitutes on the city’s West Side.
Zimmerman’s criminal record is long and violent, according to authorities. In 1985, Zimmerman was charged with sexual battery. He also has been charged with numerous counts of domestic violence, although many were dismissed because his victims refused to testify. Zimmerman was convicted in 2005 for aggravated assault.
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Judge Richard Frye has burnt this
‘bridge from Madison County’
...above all, because Madison County failed to address it for ‘decades’.
emt, can you please try that again in English? Lay off the sauce before posting.
ok people, simple math rapist= unwilling sex+female+this sick guy. Hmmm 7 years average 365 days in a year, to get his jollies is to rape which could mean….. DUH that he RAPED those 8-900 women. And not the whole world is shallow and goes by looks alone. But I do concur he looks the psycho part and well yuck! Too bad we have to pay for him to live now.
“Had sex with 800 to 900 women…“ Yeah right. Well, it’s his lie, I guess he can make it as big as he wants. Maybe the women were sight impaired and had no sense of smell, yeah, that’s the ticket…
I DON’T GET THE ATTRACTION?
This is Kobe all over again. Look at this guy, those women would have done anything to get a piece of that. MMMMMM HMMMMMMM
I hope this diabolical freak gets some “real justice” behind bars. Hopefully, he won’t get shanked too soon - let him suffer for 19 years and then get killed/shanked. Never let this animal on the streets again.
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