For victims of Keith Raniere’s NXIVM, Tuesday marked a huge day in their healing process. The 60-year-old “cult” leader was sentenced to 120 years, essentially life, in prison. The judge’s decision came after hours of emotional testimony, many of the victims women who detailed horrific sexual abuse they experienced at the hands of Raniere.

Former NXIVM member and whistleblower Sarah Edmondson said she’s “really shocked” at Raniere’s sentence.

“I’m feeling a mixture of relieved, vindicated and safe for the first time in a long time, ” Edmondson told E! News. “Relieved is the number one word on top of my head right now. ”

Edmondson was a former recruiter for NXIVM. In HBO’s The Vow and in her book Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life, Edmondson details her defection which helped lead to Raniere’s 2018 arrest.

“You are not a leader, a mentor, or a guru, ” Edmondson told Raniere in her prepared statement Tuesday. “You are a liar, a parasite, and a grifter. ”For me, it's a very happy moment, ” she told The Hollywood Reporter of Raniere’s sentence. “Because I have been on the warpath to put this man away for three-and-a-half years. And in the past, he's always managed to wriggle out of everything because of his money, power, privilege. He's had access to unlimited wealth and he has used his power to silence victims, to intimidate victims, the terrorized, exploit, abuse — sadly, my daughter included. ”.







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