Qiydaar Reddick, 27, was sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was convicted at trial of first-degree rape, second-degree burglary and aggravated criminal contempt stemming from a May 18, 2009, assault at the victim's New Brighton apartment. She flinches when her current boyfriend hugs her and fears she may never have a normal relationship.
Most of all, a rape victim said, she doesn’t want her ex-beau, New Brighton resident Qiydaar Reddick, to do to another woman what he did to her.
Justice Robert J. Collini heard the woman loud and clear.
On Wednesday, the judge sentenced Reddick, 27, to 23 years behind bars, five weeks after a jury in state Supreme Court, St. George, convicted him of rape, burglary and aggravated criminal contempt.
The defendant was found guilty of sexually assaulting the woman on May 18, 2009, at her New Brighton apartment.
About two weeks before the attack, a judge had ordered Reddick not to communicate with the victim for five years.
The woman, whose testimony helped convict Reddick, didn’t appear at his sentencing.
Instead, her impassioned plea for justice was read by Assistant District Attorney Karen Varriale, who prosecuted the case along with her associate Kelly Carroll.
“He needs to be off the streets. ... He’s just dangerous. I would never want someone else to go through the pain I went through,” the woman said in her statement. “I don’t think he deserves any leniency. ... Eventually, he will come home; he will only have to deal with it for part of his life, [but] he delivered a life sentence to me.”
During the trial, the victim, whose name is being withheld, told jurors Reddick kicked in her door twice last year — on May 6 and 18.
In the first instance, he allegedly pushed her to the ground and threatened her.
Reddick returned 12 days later, pulling a knife on the woman and slashing her hand and thumb. He then dragged her to a neighboring yard, where he raped her.
The victim was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, where she underwent a rape kit examination. DNA lifted during the exam tied Reddick to the sexual assault.
The defendant, who beat an unrelated drug rap at trial in November 2006, did not take the stand.
While jurors convicted Reddick of the May 18 attack, he was acquitted of burglary and contempt charges stemming from the May 6 incident.
Besides 23 years for rape, Collini slammed Reddick with 15 years for the burglary conviction and three and a half years to seven years for the aggravated-contempt conviction, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. The sentences will run concurrently.
In addition to prison time, the defendant is subject to 25 years’ post-release supervision for the rape conviction and five years for the burglary conviction. He must register with state authorities as a sexual offender.
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