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April 25, 2025 | New York Daily News

For beating 10-year-old Harlem boy to death, man gets 25 years to life Click For More

A judge sentenced Ryan Cato to 25 years to life in state prison Friday for brutally beating his girlfriend’s 10-year-old son to death, hitting the little boy so hard that his internal organs ruptured.

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April 25, 2025

D.A. Bragg Announces Prison Sentence For Man Who Committed Scissor Attacks In The West Village Click For More

“This defendant is now facing accountability for this random assault on three strangers,” said District Attorney Bragg. “In addition to the harm caused to victims, these instances of random violence impact the psyche of our entire borough. The public should know that we are continuing to focus on accountability when this type of conduct occurs.”

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April 25, 2025

D.A. Bragg Announces Sentencing Of Ryan Cato For Beating Girlfriend’s 10-Year-Old Son To Death Click For More

“Isolated from teachers and other responsible adults because of the pandemic, 10-year-old Ayden Wolfe was enduring horrific violence at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend. Ryan Cato brutally abused him, eventually killing Ayden in his own apartment,” said District Attorney Bragg. “While today’s sentencing will not bring back this innocent child, I hope it gives his loved ones a sense of comfort and closure in this abhorrent crime.”

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April 25, 2025 | CBS New York

Manhattan executive raped, punched and shocked women with cattle prod at his apartment, prosecutors say Click For More

A private equity executive turned his New York City apartment into a torture chamber of "grotesque sexual violence," Manhattan prosecutors said Thursday. Ryan Hemphill is accused of raping six women over five months in a depraved rampage in which he allegedly punched, waterboarded and shocked victims with a cattle prod and kept recordings of the assaults as trophies.

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April 24, 2025 | People

Financial Advisor Used Cattle Prod, Shock Collar on Women as He Raped Them, Urinated on Them: DA Click For More

Ryan Hemphill, 43, allegedly asked his victims about their sexual traumas — and then forcibly reenacted them, say prosecutors

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April 24, 2025 | NBC News

Private equity executive charged with beating, raping women in his New York City apartment Click For More

Ryan Hemphill is accused of assaulting six women over five months in his midtown Manhattan apartment.


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