Duct Tape Rapist Sentenced

(Chambersburg, Pennsylvania) A 36-year-old man, Pov Srun, was sentenced by Franklin County Judge John R. Walker to 34 years in prison yesterday for the kidnapping and rape of two women.

A stunned Srun, already serving a 35-year term in Maryland for similar crimes, called the sentence "way too harsh" and stated, "If I didn't know any better you would think I killed two people."

Srun forced his way into the Jeep of a 16-year-old Smithsburg girl in a Kmart parking lot in Waynesboro on Sept. 16, 2004, drove her to a different site and assaulted her. Twelve days later, the same thing happened to a 20-year-old woman who was abducted from a supermarket parking lot in Chambersburg, police said.

Srun, who police said used duct tape or a ski mask to disguise himself, was convicted of the attacks in October.

His wife asked Walker for leniency, saying her husband was molested as a young boy, and that she had also physically and mentally abused him. She said her husband was in the parking lots searching for her on the days of both Pennsylvania attacks.

"Well, by golly, he should have looked longer," the judge replied.

Srun will serve his 34 years in Pennsylvania after completing his 35 years in Maryland.