New York cabbie gets jail for rape
Wednesday, 14/05/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140514/punjab.htm#20
New York : A Sikh taxi driver in New York has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a women passenger three years ago, a media report said. Gurmeet Singh (42) was sentenced after the victim, who took the stand against him, described feeling triumphant, but still traumatised, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.
The victim (29), in a letter to the state Supreme Court at Brooklyn in New York, said: “You may have bound, gagged and blindfolded me, but I’m the one who’s speaking now. You will be serving time.”
The victim, a non-profit employee, testified in court proceedings that she hailed a yellow cab in Williamsburg after a Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”), a Mexican-American holiday party in May 2011, dozed off and came to when the defendant was on top of her.
“(She) woke up to her worst nightmare,” the prosecutor, Linda Weinman, was quoted as saying in her closing argument.
