As Sean “Diddy” Combs and others in his nook tried one final time to have judges rethink his convictions forward of sentencing, Cassie Ventura despatched a letter of her personal.
On Tuesday, September 30, the 39-year-old singer despatched a letter to U.S. District Choose Arun Subramanian pleading with him to maneuver forward with sentencing that totally displays the abuse she says she endured.
“Whereas the jury didn’t appear to know or imagine that I engaged in freak-offs due to the pressure and coercion the defendant used in opposition to me, I do know that’s the reality, and his sentence ought to replicate the truth of the proof and my lived expertise as a sufferer,” Ventura wrote, in accordance with Enterprise Insider.
In her three-page submitting, Ventura detailed years of alleged abuse, describing how she was coerced into intercourse acts, bodily assaulted, threatened, and compelled to dwell in a relentless state of concern. She mentioned she continues to endure from trauma in the present day, explaining that she has “nightmares and flashbacks on an everyday, on a regular basis foundation, and proceed to require psychological care to deal with my previous,” per ABC Information.
“My worries that Sean Combs or his associates will come after me and my household is my actuality. I’ve actually moved my household out of the New York space … I’m so scared that if he walks free, his first actions shall be swift retribution in the direction of me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial,” Ventura added, in accordance with ABC Information.
Combs has been convicted on two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution beneath the Mann Act however was acquitted of racketeering and intercourse trafficking fees. His protection has requested for not more than 14 months in jail (successfully time served), whereas prosecutors are pushing for a sentence of greater than 11 years.
Ventura performed a central position within the trial, testifying for 4 emotional days whereas pregnant. She described her relationship with Combs, which started when she was 19, as one marked by coercion, violence, and management. She recounted episodes of compelled intercourse, threats to her household, the notorious 2016 lodge video wherein Combs kicked her, and years of manipulation.
“He has little interest in altering or turning into higher. He’ll all the time be the identical merciless, power-hungry, manipulative man that he’s,” Ventura wrote in her letter on Tuesday.
Combs is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, October 3. Ventura closed her letter by acknowledging that victims might by no means be secure, however insisted “he nonetheless must be sentenced.”
