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The investigation was conducted by the NYPD Queens Borough Special Victims Squad and DA Brown’s Detective Bureau.
By Forum Staff
It only took 30 minutes of deliberation for a Queens jury to find 43-year-old Lorenzo “Ren” Arline, guilty on multiple counts of raping his stepdaughters, beginning when they were 12 and 14 years old.
For the ten years that followed, Arline continued raping the girls and fathered eight children with them.
District Attorney Brown called the actions “a horrible case of sexual abuse” noting that the father figure should have been caring for and protecting these girls instead of using years of physical violence and heinous threats to control them for more than a decade.
Supreme Court Justice Kenneth C. Holder presided over the trial of the Brooklyn resident whose sentencing is set for April 10. Arline was convicted on all six counts of first-degree rape and one count of second-degree rape, and faces 50 years in prison, the equivalent of a lifetime behind bars.
The abuse began in 2005. He was 31 and living with the girls in Far Rockaway. He forced them¬–then 11 and 14-years-old– to sleep naked in bed with him.
It was in March 2005, when Arline firced forced himself on the 14-year-old girl and had sex with her. He struck her, threatening to shove a coat hanger into her vagina. She left the home on one occasion without permission and he dragged her by her feet with her face scraping against the cement pavement. She was beaten and then violently raped by the defendant. Over the years, the teen became pregnant and was forced to have five children by her stepfather.
Arline then began raping the younger victim when she was just 12-years-old. He threatened her with physical harm as well, and eventually bore three of his children.
The case came to light when he hit the older girl so hard in the face that he broke her tooth.
She went to an official at her child’s school, and told them about the years of abuse.
