Man sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing two Rye teenagers

A Port Chester man apologized in a letter Monday for his “grotesque, disgusting and perverse” actions before being sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing two young girls in two random attacks in Rye last year.

In the letter, 22-year-old Richard Olmino even offered to cover the costs of any therapy the victims might need and expressed the hope of one day being able to work as an activist against sexual violence.

Both victims, identified by their initials in Westchester County District Court, had previously told state Supreme Court Judge James McCarty they hoped Olmino would learn from what he did to them and change his life, but they also criticized him for his lack of mercy, which the older victim described as a sign of his “five minutes of lust.”

The sentence was negotiated when Olmino pleaded guilty in April to first-degree sexual abuse and sexual assault. On June 3, exactly one year before the sentencing, he had attacked an 18-year-old on Playland Parkway, and on June 23, he began sexually assaulting a 16-year-old jogger in Rye Town Park before a security guard chased him away when he heard the girl’s screams.