onaire gets 8 years for sex with orphans<\/strong><\/p>\nPHILADELPHIA – A wealthy Russian-American car exporter was sentenced to the maximum penalty of eight years in prison Wednesday for procuring girls for sex from a St. Petersburg orphanage in Russia.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Andrew Mogilyansky, 39, of suburban Philadelphia raped one girl on her 14th birthday and a 13-year-old in her first sexual encounter, the victims said in letters to the court.<\/p>\n<\/span>A civil lawsuit accuses Mogilyansky of helping finance an online child-sex ring and developing its English-language Web site to attract international customers."I still feel his repugnant breath. I hate him," one of the victims, now 18, wrote in a statement read in court.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/span>Friends from Mogilyanksy's days at Columbia University also testified, describing him as a brilliant man of high character. His wife called him a loving husband and father. And a defense psychotherapist concluded that he is not a sexual predator.<\/p>\n<\/span>But the victims wrote that he left them pained, depressed and unable to trust men since the assaults in 2003 and 2004.<\/p>\n<\/span>Mogilyanksy received the top of the sentencing range negotiated as part of his plea to four "sex tourism" counts.<\/p>\n<\/span>U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin decried "this business of going abroad to have sex with young girls." She found the defendant's accomplishments impressive but called his crimes "grave."<\/p>\n<\/span>"To take young teenagers from that orphanage to an apartment and have sex with them is a grave criminal act," McLaughlin said.<\/p>\n<\/span>'This isn't me'<\/strong><\/strong>
Mogilyansky had lived in Richboro northeast of Philadelphia with his wife and their three toddlers until his bail was revoked following his arrest in December.<\/p>\n<\/span>"This isn't me," Mogilyansky told the judge. "It wasn't until after I was arrested that I looked myself in the mirror and said, 'How could I have done this?'"<\/p>\n<\/span>Prosecutors at the bail hearing estimated his wealth at $5 million to $10 million, and said he earned $750,000 a year.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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