A sicko who repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl callously told his victim to “learn to let go” of her nightmare today as he was slapped with a 47-year prison sentence by a Brooklyn judge.
Adam Wright, who preyed on the middle-schooler in November 2002, called himself a changed man who’s found God and wants to “instill some good morals and values” in his kids.
“Let go, learn to let go,” Wright said as he eyed his victim, who fought back tears. “Don’t hold on to any pain, don’t hold on to it. Give it to the Lord and he’ll take care of it for you.”
A jury in December convicted Wright, 44, of sexually assaulting the girl several times on a Canarsie rooftop after DNA connected him to the crime. The second attack occurred after he had allowed the girl to put on her clothes.
“November 13, 2002, was the worst day of my life,” the brave victim said in an emotional impact statement. “It was a day that my childhood was taken by a man I never saw or even knew.”
Now 21 and the mother of a daughter, she said the rapes scarred her for years and destroyed her personality.
“I was a lovable, sweet, warm-hearted girl,” she said, wiping away at tears with a tissue. “After that day, I became aggressive, mean.
“Basically, I was put into a shell. No one could bring me out of this shell.”
The victim’s family moved from Brooklyn to Queens after the sex attack, and she said her grades plunged.
“It took me five years to start piecing the puzzle of myself together again,” she said.
Wright acted as his own attorney during the trial, but met with defiance from his victim when he tried to grill her on the witness stand.
Supreme Court Justice Dineen Riviezzo praised Wright’s “professionalism” in the courtroom, but slammed him for showing no remorse for the “particular heartlessness” of his crime.
“The defendant raped a 12-year-old stranger, then completely dressed her, leading her to believe, however fleetingly, that her nightmare was over,” Riviezzo said. “Then he undressed her and raped her a second time.”
Wright, who has five daughters and two sons, had previously rejected a plea that would have caged him for 15 years and complained that a longer term amounts to a “life sentence.”
“I would still like to instill some good morals and values in them,” he said of his kids.