Danny Masterson victim called him ‘pathetic, disturbed and completely violent’

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By Melissa Koenig

Danny Masterson had sat stone-faced in court docket Thursday as his victims tore into him for raping them — with one calling him “pathetic, disturbed and completely violent.”

“While you raped me, you stole from me,” mentioned N. Trout, one of many two ladies the “That 70s Present” star was convicted of raping in his Hollywood-area house in 2003.

“That’s what rape is, a theft of the spirit.”

The girl, whose id was not totally revealed as a result of she was a victim of a intercourse crime, had been raped so viciously that she threw up in her mouth, prosecutors had revealed.

She called the actor “pathetic, disturbed, and completely violent” as his distraught spouse, Bijou Phillips, regarded on earlier than he was sentenced to 30 years behind bars.

“The world is best off with you in jail.

“You relish in hurting ladies. It’s your habit. It’s with out query your favourite factor to do,” N. Trout learn in her victim impression assertion Thursday.

“Life is valuable and fragile. Discover your coronary heart … Be taught one thing. Learn books. Take heed to the brightness of nothing and get properly.”

Nonetheless, she instructed him: “I forgive you.”

His different victim, solely recognized in court docket as Jen B., additionally instructed Los Angeles Superior Courtroom Decide Charlaine Olmedo on Thursday the actor “has not proven an oz of regret for the ache he prompted.

“I knew he belonged behind bars for the security of all the ladies he got here into contact with,” she mentioned, as she expressed her regret for not reporting the crime earlier.

“I’m so sorry and I’m so upset. I want I’d reported him sooner to the police.”

Prosecutors laid out how Masterson used his celeb and prominence within the Church of Scientology — the place his victims had been additionally members — to skirt the legislation and keep away from accountability.

“Sorry, Leah’s not behind this,” Jen B. mentioned, referencing actress Leah Remini, a former member of the church who has turn out to be an outspoken critic. 

The victims testified that they got drinks by Masterson that made them go out, and he proceeded to rape them.

Prosecutors mentioned N. Trout was raped so viciously that she threw up in her mouth and begged Masterson to not less than use a condom.

When the ladies reported Masterson to Scientology officers, they had been instructed they weren’t raped and had been put by way of an ethics program.

They instructed the court docket that Scientology officers additionally warned them to not report the crime to the police as a result of Masterson was such a high-ranking member of the church.

Masterson has denied any wrongdoing however didn’t testify in court docket, nor did his attorneys name any witnesses to the stand.

As a substitute, the protection argued that the sexual acts had been consensual, and accused the ladies of coordinating tales to discredit the previous Hollywood star.

The actor was by no means charged with any counts of drugging, and there is no such thing as a toxicology proof to again up the ladies’s story.

The Church of Scientology has additionally denied any wrongdoing, saying in a press release following the sentencing it has “no coverage prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting prison conduct to anybody – Scientologists or not – to legislation enforcement.

It additionally denied ever harassing both of the ladies.

However one of many ladies instructed reporters after the listening to Thursday how she was shunned and ostracized for going to authorities in 2004.

“I misplaced all the pieces. I misplaced my faith. I misplaced my capability to contact anybody I’d identified or cherished my complete life,” she mentioned. 

“I didn’t exist exterior the Scientology world, I needed to begin my life over at 29. It appeared the world I knew didn’t need me to stay.”

Trout additionally mentioned, following the sentencing, “I don’t have to hold your disgrace round with me anymore. Now you must maintain that disgrace. It’s important to sit in a cell and maintain it.”

With Submit wires.