New York intercourse worker Angelina Barini sentenced to 30 years for fatally drugging 4 males

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Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met together with her clients at motels in New York City earlier than giving them harmful doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and leave with their personal belongings.

Four of them, together with a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court docket records state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medicine that killed her shoppers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for inflicting irrational behavior, extreme sickness, coma and death.

Final week, a choose sentenced the 43-year-old Barini to 30 years in prison.

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of individuals for a few fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of New York, said in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't reply to a message from The Washington Post.

Barini met her first victim at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the person fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police found him useless hours later, court docket data state.

Every week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with another man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, where she gave him fentanyl-laced drugs. The person additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in Faculty Level, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced drugs that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors mentioned.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final recognized sufferer, Andrea Zamperoni — a chef for the high-end restaurant chain Cipriani — inside an Elmhurst, Queens, motel room, the place she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, commonly known as a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket data state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, based on prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That very same day, the New York City Police Department found the man’s physique within the motel room.

Based on court docket records, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. As soon as investigators made it into the room, they seen a strong odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini informed investigators that “she didn't do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found a number of items, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court docket records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awakened, Barini mentioned, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, would not let her name the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the overall manager of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “devoted hard employee” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of work.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso advised the Instances.

“Everybody in the kitchen right now could be heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso said.