He thought he had gotten away with the sickest of crimes: the repeated molestation and rape of his daughter while she was pre-adolescent. And he did, actually, for 10 years.
But then, Albert Tarrats’ daughter wrote about the sexual assault experience in a college entry essay a decade later and the carefully-kept secret came shattering down around the 62-year-old man.
Tarrats of New York City was sentenced Monday to 18 years behind bars for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter.
Albert Tarrats, 62, of Brooklyn remained mum throughout his sentencing in Brooklyn Supreme Court, but prosecutor Anna Krutaya read a statement from his victim, who wrote that she’s still haunted by his monstrous crimes. In the letter, she urged that Tarrats get a maximum, 25-year sentence.
“I will suffer from this memory for the rest of my life, and he will continue to feel no remorse, as well as deny it,” she wrote.
Krutaya said the brave young woman had undergone a “tremendously humiliating ordeal” and blasted Tarrats, saying he “has never accepted responsibility for his crime.”
Last month, a jury convicted Tarrats of rape, sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for forcing himself on the victim in the bedroom of her Brooklyn home in 2003.
The woman — who had relocated to Florida when her mother left Tarrats — never told anyone about the abuse until penning her fateful application to a Christian college while a high school junior.
“My mom got married . . . Toward the end of their marriage he began to rape me,” she wrote.
The mother called cops after reading the essay, leading to Tarrats’ arrest in 2012.
Tarrats had faced up to 25 years in the slammer, but caught a break from Supreme Court Justice Dineen Riviezzo, who noted that he didn’t have any prior convictions.
Defense lawyer Ernest Hammer said Tarrats “denies he committed the crime he has been convicted of in this case.”
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