New York sex employee 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 shoppers at motels in New York Metropolis earlier than giving them dangerous doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the lads and leave with their private belongings.

4 of them, including a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medicine, courtroom records state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medicine that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for causing irrational habits, severe sickness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple individuals for a number of quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Japanese District of New York, said in a news release. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal drugs she gave them.”

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

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

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

The subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in College Point, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors said.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her last known 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, generally known as a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket information state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in keeping with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That very same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division discovered the man’s body within the motel room.

Based on court docket information, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they observed a powerful odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini informed investigators that “she did not do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered a number of gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, court information state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the general supervisor of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “dedicated onerous worker” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of work.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso informed the Occasions.

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