“We can never ignore the damage you inflicted on those women and society at large”, she said.
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Former New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper will spend the next 18 years of his life in prison for admittedly drugging and raping at least 16 women.
Sharper later had the plea deal rejected by Judge Jane Triche-Milazzo on the basis that it was “too lenient” in June of this year. Sharper pleaded guilty or no contest to multiple charges related to drugging and raping the victims.
The Advocate reports that one of the victims was in the courtroom during the sentencing and told Sharper to “go to hell”.
“I lived my life right for 38 years and then I took this path”, Sharper said. She said the arrogance Sharper showed in attacking so many victims in such a short period of time gave authorities their case against him “on a silver platter”, the Advocate reported. The 18-year sentence is 15 months shy of the maximum that could be levied for the crime.
Sharper also admitted, as part of a guilty plea in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, that he raped another woman at a hotel across the street from the condo a few weeks earlier.
“They didn’t deserve anything being a part of my heinous decisions”, Sharper said. His two co-defendants, Brandon Licciardi and Erik Nunez, are scheduled to be sentenced on October 13.
The judge said he will be on three years supervised release after he gets out of prison, including sex treatment conditions and registration as a sex offender.
Sharper played for the Packers, Vikings and Saints.
In his sparkling National Football League career, he was named an All-Pro six times and was selected for the Pro Bowl, as many as five times.
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Sharper had established a post-playing career as an NFL Network analyst when all of the allegations began to come to light.
