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Brooklyn Serial Rapist Gets 100 Years to Life in Prison, DA Says

 Dexter Bell, 26, of Crown Heights was sentenced to 100 years to life in prison for raping four women and girls in 2013.
Dexter Bell, 26, of Crown Heights was sentenced to 100 years to life in prison for raping four women and girls in 2013.
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BROOKLYN — A serial rapist who committed four rapes in one week in 2013 was sentenced to 100 years to life, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced Monday.

Dexter Bell, 26, of Crown Heights was sentenced on six counts of predatory sexual assault on Monday related to attacks on four women and girls — one of them 15 years old — that took place between April 4 and April 11, 2013, in Crown Heights and Canarsie, district attorney Ken Thompson said.

“[Bell] is a sadistic and violent sexual predator who is simply not fit to walk the streets ever again,” he said in a statement after the sentencing.

Bell’s first victim was a 25-year-old woman who he raped in an alley after she got off at a B12 bus stop near Albany Avenue and Fenimore Street on April 4, 2013, according to the DA.

Four days later, he attacked a 21-year old woman in an alley near Schenectady Avenue and Montgomery Street.

He attacked two teens three days later, raping a 19-year-old woman in a stairwell near Farragut Road and 88th Street and a 15-year-old girl who had exited the B12 bus on Midwood Street near Schenectady Avenue, the DA said.

He was arrested on April 20, 2013 by police who had received an anonymous tip from a resident who recognized Bell from the state’s sex offender registry.

Bell was convicted on Nov. 9.