Former Democratic congressional aide who raped two women avoids jail time because he was disfigured in unrelated attack

07 Apr, 2015 by John Brodgian

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Well, this is gnarly.  Former Democrat aide Donny Williams was convicted of rape, though won’t be facing jail time because of a life altering attack he was the victim of…

A former Democratic congressional aide who pleaded guilty last year to raping two women was spared jail time on Friday because horrific disfiguring injuries he suffered in an unrelated 2013 acid attack.

Donny Ray Williams, who was once a staffer for the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee, slipped an intern Ambien in 2010 before having sex with her while she lay unconscious. That same year, he had sex with a woman too inebriated to give her consent, prosecutors say.

Despite admitting his guilt in December, D.C. prosecutors on Friday asked that Williams be spared prison time because he is himself the victim of a crime – the effects of which will mar the remainder of his life, Washington Post reports.

This attack happened in 2013 when someone threw acid at him while walking down the street.  The judge gave Williams a suspended jail sentence and 5 years probation, even though one of his victims wanted him to serve at least some jail time.