Suspect In Live-Stream Sexual Assault Sentenced

Franklin County Sheriff's Office

A Columbus man will spend the next nine years in prison for live-streaming a sexual assault.  Raymond Gates was sentenced yesterday for raping a 17-year-old girl at his home in February. The woman accused of recording the attack, Maria Lonina, is scheduled to go on trial in December on kidnapping, rape and other charges.

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.