Cassie Ventura has shared a sufferer impression assertion forward of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentencing as she pleads with judges to take into her devastating alleged expertise into consideration
Frightened Cassie Ventura has revealed her terror of potential revenge from Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs because the music mogul awaits sentencing – which may end in his launch from jail.
The 38-year-old vocalist – who had an on-and-off romance with the fallen rapper between 2007 and 2018 – has penned a three-page sufferer impression assertion earlier than her ex-partner’s sentencing this week, imploring Choose Arun Sibramanian to impose a penalty that acknowledges “the truth of the proof and my lived expertise as a sufferer”.
Throughout Diddy’s trial in Could, Cassie gave proof that she was coerced into collaborating in what have been termed “freak offs”, alleging she suffered sexual and bodily violence all through their relationship.
In her letter filed with the courtroom on Monday, she acknowledged: “For 4 days in Could, whereas 9 months pregnant with my son, I testified in entrance of a packed courtroom about probably the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life.
“I testified that from age nineteen, Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and management over my profession to entice me in over a decade of abuse. He groomed me into performing repeated intercourse acts with employed male intercourse employees throughout multi-day ‘freak offs,’ which occurred practically weekly.
“I used to be pressured into lingerie and heels, advised precisely learn how to look, and plied with medication and alcohol so he may management me like a puppet. These occasions have been degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, diseases, and days of bodily and emotional exhaustion earlier than he demanded all of it once more. Intercourse acts grew to become my full-time job, used as the one strategy to keep in his good graces.”
Cassie, who claimed she was “managed” by Combs, criticised the portrayal of their relationship by the authorized staff of the I will Be Lacking You hitmaker, studies the Mirror.
She penned: “Whereas the defence attorneys at trial prompt that my time with Combs was akin to a ‘nice trendy love story,’ nothing may very well be farther from the reality.
“Nothing about this story is nice, trendy, or loving – this was a horrific decade of my life stained by abuse, violence, pressured intercourse, and degradation.”
Cassie revealed that she requires psychological remedy because of ongoing “nightmares and flashbacks” ensuing from the alleged abuse and now lives “as personal and quiet” as she probably can.
She additional acknowledged: “I’m so scared that if he walks free, his first actions will likely be swift retribution in direction of me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial.”
The founding father of Dangerous Boy data was discovered responsible on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, however was acquitted of different costs together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering. Cassie expressed her disappointment that the jury “didn’t appear to know or imagine that I engaged in freak offs due to the pressure and coercion the defendant used towards me, I do know that’s the fact”, however she stays hopeful that the decide “considers the truths at hand that the jury did not see.”
Combs’ authorized representatives have submitted a movement requesting the decide to think about a 14-month jail sentence adopted by supervised launch with obligatory drug remedy and remedy for his or her shopper. Combs has been incarcerated since his arrest in September final 12 months, and the rules for his “crimes of conviction” sometimes vary from six to 12 months.
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