New York (AP) – Private Capital CEO has turned its New York apartment into the House of Torture to Grotesque Sexual Violence, Manhattan prosecutors said on Thursday. He has been accused of raping six women in five months in a broken rage, in which he supposedly hit, uploaded and shocked victims with livestock and kept records of attacks as trophies.
Ryan Hemfil, who remains closed after his arrest last month, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of 116, accused him of predatory sexual assault and other crimes dated until last October. The 43-year-old, who is also a lawyer, threatened that the victims were arrested or disappeared in an attempt to remain silent, prosecutors said.
“The defendant told these survivors that he was untouchable,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “The accusation is clear that he is wrong.”
Hemfil was sitting quietly in a Kaki prison suit, his cuffs clutching with a cross behind his back, as a prosecutor described his alleged crimes in terrible details.
If convicted, Hemfil can spend the rest of his life in prison. Earlier, he was justified in 2015 for suffocation and holding his ex-girlfriend’s throat knife after testifying that he was glad to strangle her during sex.
“We have reason to believe that these six victims are just the tip of the iceberg,” Manhattan’s assistant Mira Kurzer told Judge An E. Sherzer.
Hemfil’s apartment, near the Empire State building, was equipped with multiple observation cameras, and investigators have restored images showing dozens, if not hundreds, from other women, many of them naked and tied, Curizer said.
Investigators have also found hundreds of bullets and magazines with high capacity and a large amount of drugs, including heroin, cocaine, amphetamines and fentanyl, prosecutors said.
Hemfil met with six women through websites, including some who specialize in Sugar Daddy arrangements for women looking for rich romantic partners, Curzer said.
He told women that he was involved in role play and domination and offered them large sums of money in exchange for sex and communion, although he did not ultimately pay some of the women or instead give them counterfeit money, Kerzer said.
As Hemfil explores women, he convinced them to trust their past sexual injuries, which then deliberately reconstructed themselves while attacking them, Kurzer said. He took advantage of the inexperience of some victims, the prosecutor said or crossed the boundaries that the victims had clearly formulated.
Hemfil is accused of cheating on victims to absorb substances that made them unable to stop, using handcuffs and other restrictions on them, wrapping their heads and faces with a canal band, slaps and hitting them and tortures them with a stove and shock collar.
Hemfil kept a victim to be shaped on a bed for hours as she asked him to let her go, Kurzer said.
Hemfil’s alleged behavior is “really shocking to conscience” and he “clarified that he was not relevant to the law or the courts,” Kurzer said.
In order to keep women quiet, Hemfil boasts relationships with law enforcement agencies and organized crime, prosecutors said and claim that since women have accepted offers for money, they will be arrested.
Hemfil is accused of bribery a witness and, according to prosecutors, has drawn up a contract in which he agreed to pay a woman $ 2,000 in exchange for a refusal of a complaint she filed with the police. He is also accused of forcing some casualties to record videos that have said they have agreed to be abused.
“The imbalance of power in its predatory action cannot be more clear,” Brag told reporters. “He had his degree in right and money like a sword and shield, forcing and silencing the survivors.”
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Sherzer ordered Hemfil to remain in prison without a guarantee after prosecutors expressed fears that his difficulty, combined with his wealth and relationships – including the history of philanthropy and family farms for real estate – can give him the means and incentives to escape from the country.
Hemfil’s lawyer, a public defender appointed to represent him at least through his contract, called on Sherzer to move him to a rehabilitation establishment in order to deal with the problems of drug abuse.
Sherzer ruled that given the model of the fact outlined by prosecutors, “including efforts to dissuade force and threats for witnesses to testify against him,” his prison was the only way to ensure that Hemfil would return to court.
Hemfil’s alleged behavior, the judge said, “shows his extent to which he is ready to go to prevent these accusations.”