New York sex 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 along with her purchasers at motels in New York City before giving them dangerous doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the lads and go away with their personal belongings.

Four of them, including a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, court records state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing drugs that killed her shoppers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for causing irrational habits, severe sickness, coma and loss of life.

Last week, a judge 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 while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medication she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not respond to a message from The Washington Submit.

Barini met her first sufferer at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the person fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police found him lifeless hours later, courtroom information state.

A week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with one other man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, the place she gave him fentanyl-laced drugs. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

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

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

That day, courtroom information state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, based on prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That very same day, the New York City Police Division discovered the person’s physique within the motel room.

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

Barini instructed investigators that “she didn't do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found several gadgets, including a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, court docket records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she woke up, Barini stated, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, wouldn't let her name the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the overall supervisor of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted onerous worker” who cooked six days per week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

The kitchen workers mourned the loss, Dallorso advised the Occasions.

“Everybody within the kitchen right now's heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso said.