A private capital executive is accused of violating and assaulting six women in their New York City Department for a period of five months, and prosecutors say that “there may be more survivors” of the alleged anger of men.
The Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office revealed an accusation of the Supreme Court of the State of New York of 116 charges on Thursday, accusing Ryan Hempill, 43, with predatory sexual assault, rape and aggression, among other positions, in a series of alleged acts that began on October 3.
Hempill was arrested on March 1. He has been arrested in jail since then and appeared before the Court for his reading of charges on Thursday.
He declared himself innocent, and the judge ordered him to remain in jail.
“The defendant told these survivors that he was untouchable,” said the Bragg District prosecutor at a press conference on Thursday. “The accusation makes it clear that I was wrong.”
Prosecutors say that Hempill used their wealth and power as a weapon, and supposedly hit and drugged women to contain them, threatened them with weapons and knives and used a shock necklace and a prodium of cattle before raping them in what Bragg said they were “hours of physical and sexual violence.”
In some cases, prosecutors claim that Hempill asked women to trust him about their past sex traumas and then recreated the acts they described. He also allegedly recorded sexual acts in video cameras in his Midtown Manhattan apartment.
After their arrest, the authorities executed a search warrant in the Hempill apartment and found high capacity magazines and hundreds of bullets, a cattle clamp, large amounts of drugs and surveillance cameras with videos of dozens of women, according to the Manhattan da Office.
“We have reasons to believe there may be more survivors,” said Bragg. The prosecutor later said: “Dozens, if not hundreds, of women are captured in that footage.”
The prosecutors said that Hempill told women that he was highly connected and boasted about his status as a lawyer, insisting that because they accepted money he offered, they would be arrested.
In one case, Hempill allegedly agreed to pay a $ 2,000 woman in exchange for her to leave a police complaint, prosecutors said. He also supposedly forced women to record videos saying that they consented to sexual acts so that they could have denied if they decided to speak.
“The imbalance of power in their predators could not be clearer,” Bragg said Thursday.
Prosecutors said he met women online and told them that he would pay them “great sums of money” in exchange for sex. In many cases, he never paid women or paid them with false money, prosecutors said.
In 2015, Hempill was acquitted from suffocating and holding a knife to his ex -golgant.
If it is convicted, Hempill could face life imprisonment.
In the reading of charges on Thursday, Judge Ann E. Scherzer ordered Hempill to remain imprisoned without bail. His lawyer, a public defender, asked the judge to transfer Ampill to a rehabilitation center to treat substance abuse problems.
Scherzer said that keeping Hephill in jail was the only way to ensure that he would return to the Court, as his behaviors, established by prosecutors, “shows its extension in which he is willing to protect himself from facing these positions.”
