
Monster gets 422 years for 19-hour rape and torture of Columbia student
Calling the sex-torture of a Columbia student an "extraordinary evil," an angry judge Thursday sent the sadistic rapist to jail for 422 years - and said he deserved more.
During the trial, the 23-year-old victim testified that she feared she would not survive the nightmarish April 13, 2007, assault in her Hamilton Heights studio apartment.
She described how Williams followed her from the elevator to her apartment door, forcing his way inside and repeatedly raping her.
"I thought after he took all my stuff, I thought he would leave," she testified. "When he started raping me again, I was sure I was going to die."
Over 19 hours, Williams tortured the victim as she pleaded for her life. He blinded her with bleach, scalded her with boiling water, sealed her lips with crazy glue, made her cut off her hair - and demanded she gouge out her eyes before slicing her eyelids.
He capped his fiendish crime by setting her ablaze while she lay bound to a futon frame.