Ex-Massachusetts professor gets 10-12 years for Christmas Eve torture attack on colleague over unrequited love
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A former professor at a private New England liberal arts college for women was sentenced Wednesday to 10 to 12 years in prison over a December 2019 attack on her colleague whom she tortured for four hours.
During a hearing Wednesday, Franklin County Superior Court Francis Flannery said he took several days to mull over the charging decision in what he described as an extremely "troubling case," adding, "This is one of the most horrific set of facts I have ever heard," the Greenfield Recorder reported. Former Mount Holyoke College professor Rie Hachiyanagi during a 2020 remote hearing in Franklin County Superior Court (Screenshot) (Franklin County Superior Court) Rie Hachiyanagi changed her pleas Friday to guilty on nine charges stemming from a December 23, 2019 attack that left her colleague with permanent injuries. (Mount Holyoke College )
"I have this defendant who tried to torture to death over four hours someone who wasn’t an enemy, but was a friend," Flannery said, according to WWLP.