One of the victim impact statements at sentencing of #KeithRaniere was from a Mexican woman whom he ordered confined to a room for nearly two years because she dared to kiss another man.
She told Raniere on Tuesday: “This is the last time you will hold my attention.”
She said: “I will never know what my life would have been like without all the pain and horror.”
The woman — the older sister a a woman whom, at 15, Raniere sexually abused — told Raniere his viciousness was memorable and cruel but that he is one of many vicious monsters in the world and one who who will eventually be forgotten.
The woman told the judge: “He showed me no mercy. He showed my little sister no mercy. He deserves no mercy.”
In his victim impact statement yesterday, former #NXIVM member Mark Vicente told #KeithRaniere:
“Finding out the truth about you and your actual motives turned my world upside down. You broke goodness.”
(Vicente and wife Bonnie Piesse after Raniere verdict on June 19, 2019).
Vicente told Raniere, his one-time mentor: “You cracked the firmament of my belief in nobility and honor and righteousness. I do know how to repair it. I do not know if it can ever be made whole again. I fight everyday to try and recapture something that now feels lost.”
Vicente to Raniere: “This was not by accident on your part. When I was writing the film ‘Carbon Crimes,’ you wanted me to craft a female character of innocence and good will. Someone who worked for a leader she believed in with all her might.”
The first victim speaking Tuesday was 15 when Raniere first had sex w/her.
"As for the man I am here to speak about," she said, "I will not say his name. I will only call him 'he.' He doesn't deserve anything more than that. I don't want to allow his name back into my life."
She continued: "I understand there are charges in this case that concern me, and that my name has been mentioned repeatedly throughout the trial. But I was not here, and my voice was not heard."
"The man you are about to sentence had a deep impact on my life that I am not sure I can fully quantify or qualify. It has taken a long time for me to process the trauma caused by his attempt s to control my mind and my world, and his efforts to replace my voice with his own."