A former Department of Education bureaucrat was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday after the wife he savagely attacked described the “horror story” she said was her life.
Laurence Harvey, 46 — who earned $165,000 a year supervising support staffers at 263 schools around the city — was also ordered to stay away from his wife for eight years after he’s released.
“My life was a living hell. He wanted to destroy me,” she said in a gripping victim-impact statement at Harvey’s sentencing in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“I wonder how a human can suffer so much pain,” she added.
“He took me to the lowest level. I cried inside every day … I just thought, ‘When will my suffering end?’ ”
Harvey offered no remorse in a 10-point rant to Judge Laura Ward in which he denied any crime took place in May 2010.
“I declare my innocence with the most fervor I can muster,” he said. “None of these crimes transpired. They were all fabricated.
“I stand before this court as the epitome of inequality and injustice in this country,” he said.
Harvey was arrested in December after his wife of 10 years reported she had been attacked eight months before in the Manhattan apartment they shared with their infant twin boys.
“I’m going to teach you a lesson!” he screamed before taping her up and sexually assaulting her with a hammer and a screwdriver.
During his trial, prosecutors showed the jury photos of the bound and gagged woman.
And prosecutors played iPhone recordings of the night of the attack, in which Harvey was heard shouting, “I can do anything to you! You’re a whore!”