New York Daily News

Yrs. for ‘devil’ stepdad

- BY CHRISTINA CARREGA

THIS DEVIL finally got his due.

A Queens judge sentenced a vicious ex-con to 150 years in prison Tuesday for beating, raping and impregnati­ng his underage stepdaught­ers during a decadelong “reign of terror” prosecutor­s compared to modern-day slavery.

“He’s a living, breathing devil,” one of Lorenzo Arline’s two victims said in impact statements in Queens Supreme Court.

Arline, 43, was arrested in 2015 after one of the victims confided to a school official about the abuse that began in 2005 — when their mother had a stroke and was hospitaliz­ed for months. By then, the victim and her sister had bore eight of Arline’s children over the 10 years he abused them.

“I have to look into the eyes of my children and see his face and be reminded every day of what he put me through,” said the woman who was forced to become a teen mother.

The remorseles­s man — shirtless, handcuffed and with a black mesh bag over his face — was brought into Justice Kenneth Holder’s courtroom by force Tuesday by eight court officers.

Arline had attempted to delay the proceeding by smearing his feces all over his body in the holding cell at Rikers Island.

During the hearing, Arline repeatedly interrupte­d the women as they spoke, affectiona­tely calling one “boo,” and proclaimed his innocence.

After several warnings to stop the outbursts, the judge had Arline removed from the courtroom until it was his opportunit­y to speak.

“He knows he’s not innocent,” one of his victims said. “I couldn’t say I wanted to have sex. You took my virginity. You told me I’d never be free and I’d always be your property.”

The nightmare began when Arline moved into the victims’ Far Rockaway home less than a year after his release from a Florida prison, where he’d been serving time for manslaught­er, court records show.

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