PNO: Tampa man gets 200 years for raping men
Tom Dempsey
A serial rapist of gay men was sentenced in federal court Friday to the
maximum 200 years in a Florida prison and is expected to face murder
charges for killing two of his victims.
Steven Lorenzo, 46, was found guilty in November of slipping the
"date-rape drug" GHB into the drinks of nine gay men, then raping and
sexually torturing them at his home.
Seven of Lorenzo's victims testified that they met Lorenzo in Tampa gay
bars and went home with him. According to their testimony, when they
woke up they were naked, bound and in pain. Lorenzo's attorney argued
that the sex acts were consensual.
Two of the nine victims named in the rape case were murdered, and
prosecutors say they plan to try Lorenzo and an accomplice, Scott
Schweickert of Chicago, in the killings. Lorenzo allegedly met
Schweickert online and agreed to fulfill a fantasy of torturing and
killing men.
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