Rapist sentenced: William Luth, 26, was sentenced on Thursday to 41 years and three months for the October 2016 kidnapping and rape of a 22-year-old Kansas City sheriff’s deputy (pictured in court)
A man has been sentenced to more than 41 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a suburban Kansas City sheriff’s deputy, who said the ‘two hours of hell’ did not break her.
William Luth, 26, of Blue Springs, Missouri, learned his fate on Thursday, after he pleaded guilty in December to counts of aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Under the plea deal, a judge handed down a sentence of 41 years and three months, which surpasses the state’s sentencing guidelines for the criminal counts in this case.
Luth’s victim was present in court during his sentencing but did not speak, reported Kansas City Star.
Instead, the prosecutor read a statement from the deputy in which she described the harrowing attack two years ago.
Police said Luth and another man, Brady Newman-Caddell, followed the then 22-year-old deputy from a QuikTrip market at East Santa Fe and South Ridgeview to the county jail parking lot at 101 North Kansas Avenue in Olathe and then kidnapped her about 11.30pm on October 7, 2016.
The victim, who had been on the job about four months, was in civilian clothing and on her way to work. She was abducted while getting out of her car in the booking facility’s parking lot and blindfolded.
Prosecutors say Luth (left) and Brady Newman-Caddell, 22 (right), ambushed the plainclothes deputy and drove around for two hours taking turns raping the woman in a car
The deputy was abducted from the parking lot of the county jail’s booking facility in Olathe, Kansas (pictured)
‘Two hours of hell’: The victim wrote in her statement that she has been having vivid nightmares replaying her two-hour rape in the backseat of this blue Mazda
Authorities said that after the deputy was repeatedly punched in the head and forced into a blue Mazda, her eyes were covered with a sweatshirt and she was driven around while being sexually assaulted by both men, who took turns raping and sodomizing her in the backseat.
She was released about two hours later, at around 1.15am, near Interstate 470 in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, with her assailants instructing her to keep her head covered before they drove off.
She staggered until she saw the lights of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Lee’s Summit.
In her impact statement, the woman talked about experiencing vivid nightmares after her abduction, which she said has eroded her trust in people, and especially in men.
‘I could still feel how your sweaty, aggressive hands gripped my neck as you so victoriously forced yourself inside of me again and again, no matter how much I said that it hurt,’ said the deputy, describing her bad dreams.
For months after the incident, the deputy said she could not go near the parking lot in Olathe where she was ambushed, but she has been working to overcome her anxiety.
The deputy wrote that Luth did not break her and that she emerged from the experience a better person and a better law enforcement officer.
Luth pleaded guilty in December to counts of aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy
Heinous crime: Luth (left) and Newman-Caddell (right) also are charged with sexually assaulting a Missouri woman in her apartment while her two-year-old daughter was in the same bed in February 2016.
‘I won,’ she said in her statement. ‘You chose the wrong individual to be your last victim.’
The woman added that all she wants is closure for herself and justice for Luth’s other alleged victims.
‘I hold no hatred in my heart for you,’ the statement read.
The judge called the deputy an ‘amazing person’ and told Luth that he deserves every minute of his sentence, reported Fox 4 KC. The 26-year-old also will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Charges in the attack also are pending against Luth’s alleged accomplice, Newman-Caddell.
Luth and Newman-Caddell, 22, also are charged with sexually assaulting a Missouri woman in her apartment while her two-year-old daughter was in the same bed in February 2016.