'SuperFly' actor Kaalan Walker gets 50 years to life in prison for raping four women and three minors
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Kaalan Walker, a Los Angeles rapper and actor who appeared in the 2018 movie 'SuperFly' has been sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for a series of sexual assaults from 2013 to 2018. He assaulted seven survivors, including three minors, whom he lured in the name of photo and music video shoots. He was arrested in 2018 for his crimes and was released on bond. He was taken into custody again after the jury's verdict.
According to NBC 4, the plaintiff Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Wallace believed that Walker, who was ordered to register as a lifetime sex offender, was "truly a predator." However, the defendant's attorney Andrew Flier claimed that the women were seeking revenge agaist the rapper because they fell for his fake promises of music video shoots and the opportunity to meet Walker's famous friends.
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Walker was convicted of three counts of forcible rape, two counts each of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and rape of an intoxicated victim, and one count of assault with intent to commit oral copulation in April 2018 by a Van Nuys jury. Of the charges, he was acquitted of two counts of forcible rape and one count of forcible digital penetration that involved three other alleged victims.
According to NBC 4, in March 2018, when the case began, Deputy District Attorney Yasmin Fardghassemi said in her opening statement that the women who were involved in the case did not know each other. She said, "The single thing that unites all of these women is the defendant Kaalan Walker.'' When the prosecutor told the jurors about how Kaalan used Twitter and Instagram to look for his victims and lured aspiring models and actresses in the name of photo and music video shootings, she initiated the statement by saying, "You're going to see a dark side of him. When they said 'Stop,' he didn't care."
On the other hand, Flier, according to whom, his client had been "portrayed as a monster'' said that Walker was innocent. He said, "They're going to lie to you because they know that they fell for his B.S. The pattern of Mr. Walker is to make false promises, and they bought it. Each one of these women voluntarily made their own decisions,'' Flier said in Walker's defense, adding, "He didn't force them. It's pay-back to Mr. Walker and we're not going to let that happen.'' He also claimed that his client's potentially great career had been ruined ever since the accusations and that he has endured "a living nightmare."