COURTS Man sentenced to 20 years for kidnapping, rape

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man was sentenced to prison for 20 years after he was convicted of drugging women and raping them. Trial evidence was based on his own photographs of the crimes.
"You were a manipulator, a con man and a disgusting, perverted individual," Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty told Hughie Attaway at the sentencing Thursday.
Attaway, 45, of Cleveland, went on trial Tuesday on more than 90 felony counts.
He pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven felonies, including rape, kidnapping and drug charges.
Despite his guilty pleas that ended the trial, Attaway insisted Thursday he didn't rape the women and did nothing wrong.
But he made no effort to withdraw any of his pleas.
"I've never hurt no one," he mumbled to McGinty, before the judge rendered the sentence.
"You, sir, have been shown to be heartless," McGinty shot back. "You have shown an absolute lack of insight into the depths of your own depravity."
Police began their investigation when employees of a Walgreens store last December processed a roll of Attaway's film and found images of apparently unconscious women being fondled.
Three women in the pictures agreed to testify against Attaway. None knew they had been violated before seeing the photos.