HARLEM SERIAL SEX-SLAY FIEND TO ROT IN PRISON  

New York Post/Laura Italiano

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When Arohn Kee was 29,the serial killer rapist who preyed on teen girls in Harlem, stood at therndefense table, apologizing for his crimes, for the first time, in a pre sentencing statement whenrnthe Maximo Duverge, 31, leapt from the back row. Kee had killed Duverge's cousin Johalis Castro,rn19, in 1997 and may have set her body on fire while she was still alive. Court officers heldrnDuverge back before he could attack Kee, who had just tearily told the packed room, I am sorry.\rnKee will serve life without parole for raping and asphyxiating Rashed Washington, 18, in 1998. Hernreceived additional life sentences for murdering Castro and Paola Illera, who was only 13 when Keernsexually assaulted and strangled her in 1991. For good measure, the judge gave him 400 more yearsrnfor his rapes of four other girls, aged 13 through 15. Kee's youngest rape victim, a tiny 13 yearrnold had testified that he told her, Shut up, and take it like a woman, while sodomizing her in arnstairwell. When Kee asked to be excused from listening to the prosecutors scathing summation,rnSupreme Court Justice Joan Sudolnik denied his request telling him, Why don't you take it like arnman.

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Kee, now 33, was penitent and oddly cheerful as he was sentenced to a 20 year prison term forrnraping the 17 year old girl, a decade old attack in which the DNA caught up with him only thisrnyear.

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(Harlem, New York)

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