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Allison Mack sentenced to 3 years in prison for role in NXIVM cult

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Allison Mack sentenced to 3 years in prison for role in NXIVM cult

Allison Mack has been sentenced to three years in prison for her involvement in the Nxivm sex cult.

When Mack was a high-ranking member of NXIVM, the upstate New York cult run by Keith Raniere, who is currently serving a 120-year prison sentence, she pled guilty in 2019 to several offenses, including extortion and forced labor.

U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis informed Mack, 38, of her punishment in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning. She was apprehended in Brooklyn in April 2018 following a wild trip to Mexico with Raniere and others, where Raniere was apprehended at a property outside of Puerto Vallarta in March of that year.

Mack renounced Raniere during her sentence in federal court in Brooklyn.

“I made choices I will forever regret,” she said, adding that she was overwhelmed with “remorse and guilt.”

“I am sorry to those of you that I brought into NXIVM,” she said in a letter to the court last week. “I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man.”

She expressed her remorse to the victims, saying, “From the deepest part of my heart and soul, I am sorry.”

Jessica Joan, one of the victims, testified before Mack’s sentence on Wednesday, saying Mack emotionally manipulated her and finally forced her to “seduce” Raniere with the promise of resolving her trauma from earlier sexual assault. Joan stated that she disobeyed the command.

Joan described Mack as a “a predator and an evil human being” adding that she and Raniere were “cut from the same cloth”

Mack’s apologies were also rejected by her, and she told the judge that the actor deserved no leniency.

“She can blame Keith all she wants but she is a monster cut from the same cloth,” Joan said in court. “Allison Mack is a predator and an evil human being.”

Joan said in a statement following the sentencing judgment that she does not believe Mack feels remorse.

“Allison herself gained pleasure in creating harm and destruction to her victims. That type of evil was ingrained in her far before meeting Keith, he just activated and cultivated it,” Joan said. “In that courtroom today I looked into the eyes of a sociopath and I saw no remorse.”

Former members of the NXIVM testified during Raniere’s trial that he developed a secret sorority within the organization in which “slaves” promised absolute allegiance to “masters,” with Raniere at the top as “grand master.” Women were put on starvation diets, branded with Raniere’s initials, and compelled into having intercourse with him in certain circumstances.

Prosecutors say Mack and other group leaders used nude images and other compromising material to coerce members into participating.

Mack faced a sentence of 14 to 17 1/2 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines, however prosecutors argued she deserved less time because of her assistance with investigators.

Mack’s lawyers wrote in a court statement last week that “She cannot undo what has been done, and she will have to live with the regret for the rest of her life. But Ms. Mack still holds the potential to be valuable to society — as a family member, as a friend, as a helper to those in need and as a cautionary tale.”

Mack was also fined $20,000 and has to do 1,000 hours of community service. On September 29, she will turn herself in to the authorities. Her lawyers have asked for her to be sent to a federal prison on the West Coast because her family lives in Orange County.

Mack is best recognized for her role as Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent’s close friend, in “Smallville,” which aired on the WB and later the CW networks from 2001 to 2011.

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