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Report: Bethesda Home Invasion Rapist Sentenced

Kevin Darnell Ray was sentenced for the January 2012 attack.

The man who forced himself into a Bethesda home on Jan. 11, 2012, sexually assaulted a housekeeper, and held her and two residents of the home at gunpoint was sentenced to life in prison plus 220 years earlier this month, The Washington Post reported.

At the July 2 sentencing, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge David A. Boynton said the "only appropriate sentence" for Ray—who has committed several other crimes, including in Wheaton and Temple Hills—"was one without the possibility of freedom," The Post reported.

Ray, a 34-year-old registered sex offender from Fort Washington, confessed to his crimes earlier this year, Patch reported.

After tying up a Bethesda homeowner and her 14-year-old son, Ray sexually assaulted their housekeeper in a bathroom after threatening her with a gun, blindfolding her and holding a pair of scissors to her neck, Assistant State's Attorney Peter Feeney said. Ray then forced the housekeeper into a shower and attempted to wash away evidence, Patch reported

The housekeeper now is afraid of showers and running water, WUSA 9 reported (see video at this link).

The attack was part of a violent three-day crime spree, according to reports.

A day before the Bethesda attack, Ray terrorized a Wheaton woman and her infant child at gunpoint, locking them in a closet in their home, stealing cash and driving off in the woman'scar.

A day after the Bethesda attack, Ray approached a woman warming up her car outside herTemple Hills home, forced her into the home, had another resident of the home tie up the other residents, and then raped the woman twice, in two different rooms, WUSA 9 reported.

Ray's criminal activities stretch back to the mid-1990s, Patch reported.

Read more about Ray's sentencing on The Washington Post's website. Watch a video report on the sentencing on WUSA 9's website.


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