NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere stands during his sentencing hearing in a sex trafficking and racketeering case inside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in New York, U.S., New York, U.S., October 27, 2020 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Keith Raniere, the founder of the cult-like group NXIVM where women were kept on starvation diets, branded with his initials, and ordered to have sex with him, was sentenced on Tuesday to 120 years in prison following his conviction for sex trafficking and other crimes.
The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, after a hearing where 15 former NXIVM members spoke out against Raniere, 60. Garaufis said "no words can adequately express the lasting pain" Raniere caused his victims.
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