A 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 “survival is a miracle.”
Career criminal Avon Long, 79, received a 32-years-to-life prison sentence for barging into the octogenarian’s 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.
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.
“His monstrous and evil career will be no more, never ever and again – 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,” she said surrounded by loved ones in a powerful victim impact statement ahead of sentencing…