Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced to 20 years in prison on November 29 for drugging and raping two women in Los Angeles. The sentencing comes after rape allegations from up to 16 women in several states.
Two women provided the testimonies to convict Sharper on Tuesday. The accounts of the drugging and raping are strikingly similar. Both women met Sharper at a nightclub and were invited to another party with him. Sharper is quoted as saying he had to “get something” from his hotel room, and once inside his room, he made the women drinks contaminated with sedatives.
One woman recalls waking up in Sharper’s hotel with pain in her vaginal area. Another said she can’t remember anything except for the rape kit testing positive after she and a friend left from Sharper’s hotel to go to a hospital.
Between 2014 and 2016, Sharper was prosecuted on drug and rape charges in Louisiana, Nevada and Arizona. This sentence in Los Angeles serves as the final sentence to run concurrently with all charges against Sharper and includes an order for sex-offender registration and HIV/AIDS testing.
Sharper was first arrested in Los Angeles in January 2014 on two drug and rape incidents. Sharper had been a retired NFL safety and working as an analyst for the NFL network at the time of his arrest. The NFL network fired Sharper following the widespread of allegations.