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Avon Long will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services Sex Offender Registry<\/p>\nA serial rapist was slapped with an effective life sentence after he tormented and strangled an 81-year-old Manhattan woman who bravely said in court Wednesday her \u201csurvival is a miracle.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Career criminal Avon Long, 79, received a 32-years-to-life prison sentence for barging into the octogenarian\u2019s apartment where he forced himself on top of her and covered her mouth during a sickening sexual assault that lasted for more than an hour nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n
The survivor, now 83, stared down the twisted offender in Manhattan Criminal Court and encouraged the judge to throw the book at Long, who whined the trial had been traumatizing for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis monstrous and evil career will be no more, never ever and again \u2013 no more victims such as myself, no more nightmares [and] no more freedom for Avon Long to be evil and do evil and seriously injure his victims,\u201d she said surrounded by loved ones in a powerful victim impact statement ahead of sentencing.<\/p>\n
Avon Long will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services Sex Offender Registry<\/p>\n
The sickening attack took place in October 2023, in which Long ordered the victim to undress and lie down on her bed inside her apartment at a senior center home before carrying out his assault, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
When he was done, he used a phone charger cord to bind her wrists and warned her not to call police until he had enough time to flee. The cruel culprit left the apartment, but returned soon after to strangle the woman until she lost consciousness.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was treated as the defenseless animal by a male\u00a0human being who turned into a vicious animal named Avon Long,\u201d said the victim.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom beginning to end\u00a0I was haunted \u2026 wanting to do everything he said to do without interference because he was capable of killing me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy survival is a miracle,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Long has spent decades behind bars for sexual assaults dating back to the late 1960s when he pleaded guilty to a count each of rape and robbery.<\/p>\n