Nancy Salzman, centre, leaves Brooklyn Federal court, Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in New York. Salzman is the co-founder of NXIVM, the embattled upstate New York self-help organization.A former nurse who co-founded and once ran the cult-like NXIVM group, where prosecutors say some women were brainwashed, branded like animals and coerced into sex, was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in prison but won’t be locked up until January.
Salzman must report to prison by Jan. 19, Garaufis said. Her lawyers said she has been caring for her ailing mother.Speaking in Brooklyn federal court, Salzman, 67, said she fell under NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s spell when they started working together 20 years ago and that she started rationalizing and overlooking the wrongdoing she saw around her. She offered an apology to everyone she’s hurt.
At Salzman’s sentencing, Garaufis said she had positioned herself alongside Raniere “atop the NXIVM pyramid” and “left trauma and destruction” in her wake. Raniere was sentenced last October to 120 years in prison for turning some women into sex slaves branded with his initials and sexually abusing a 15-year-old. The group attracted millionaires, including Seagram’s liquor heir Clare Bronfman, and Hollywood actors, including Allison Mack of TV’s “Smallville.”Bronfman was sentenced a year ago to nearly seven years in prison. Mack was sentenced in June to three years in prison.
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