Man Gets 223 Years in Sex-Torture Case
A man who authorities say held three women in chains in a backyard sex-torture trailer was sentenced in Truth Or Consequences to more than 223 years in prison.
David Parker Ray, 61, was arrested in March 1999 after a naked woman wearing only a dog collar and chain fled Ray’s trailer in Elephant Butte, about 140 miles south of Albuquerque.
Ray’s sentence stemmed from charges involving two victims, one tortured in 1996 and another in 1999. A third victim died of pneumonia last year; that case was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
State Atty. Gen. Patricia Madrid said it was necessary to “keep the animal in his cage.”
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