By C1 Staff
LOS ANGELES — A man convicted of sexually assaulting an employee during a robbery was sentenced Wednesday to 193 years to life in prison.
CBS News reports that Raymond Sherman Jr., 36, was convicted in March of one count each forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and kidnapping to commit another crime, along with 14 counts of second-degree robbery in connection with a takeover robbery on Jan. 10, 2013.
He was acquitted on another rape change involving the same victim.
Sherman had previously worked at the store and was the alleged “mastermind” of the crime. During the robbery he raped and sexually assaulted one woman after separating her from the rest of the employees, most of whom had been ordered to “strip down to their underwear.”
He claimed that the victim was actually in on the plan so she could file a civil lawsuit and said that she was the one who initiated oral sex. He claimed that he went along with it because he thought police had been called and that he would be going to jail.
“It wasn’t rape,” he said. “I would never rape anyone.”
His accomplices, Troy Marsay Hammock and Everett Oneal Allen were convicted of 14 counts of second-degree robbery. Allen was also found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon.
Hammock received 41 years and Allen received 37.