Ex-New Orleans Saints safety turned serial rapist Darren Sharper, will spend the next 18 years of his life behind bars for his sick rape spree crimes against several women.
TMZ reported that a federal judge in Louisiana rejected a plea and sentenced him to 18 years behind bars.
Judge Jane Triche Milazzo originally informed the court last February that she would not accept the plea deal reached by prosecutors and the defense of nine years in prison because she did not believe the punishment fit the crime. So on Thursday, she doubled the time of that deal.
Sharper spoke in court and apologized to his victims and his family.
The Associated Press noted that one of Sharper’s victims also spoke in court and described him as “arrogant” and “twisted” to have continued his sex crimes against multiple woman even after learning that he was being investigated. She then told him to “Go to hell.”
Sharper was first arrested in 2014 and later charged with drugging and raping more than a dozen women in different states including Arizona, Nevada and Louisiana.
He played in the NFL for 14 years and in addition the Saints, had stints with the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers before retiring in 2010.