‘I felt like I died that night. A piece of me did…’

Ronald Armstrong

Unanimously convicted and now awaiting sentencing, Ronald Armstrong on Thursday heard from the impact statement of the woman he raped at gun-point the struggle she has endured to move forward with her life.

Almost a decade later, “it feels as if no time has passed at all,” the court heard from the woman’s statement, which was read on her behalf by state counsel Caressa Henry, at the pre-sentencing hearing. 

According to the statement, the woman had for years blamed herself, instead of attributing it to Armstrong.