A Chemung County woman who admitted to helping a serial rapist commit at least one of his crimes will serve up to 15 years in prison.
Ashley M. Hamm, 36, of Pine City, was sentenced in Bradford County Court this week to a minimum of six years and four months and a maximum of 15 years after pleading guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of an unconscious person and possession with intent to deliver and manufacture methamphetamine, both felonies.
The investigation was initiated in April 2024 after 45-year-old Sean Robert Hall was initially charged in connection with a methamphetamine manufacturing operation out of his home on Linden Street in Sayre.
During the course of the investigation, detectives with the Bradford County Drug Task Force executed search warrants for Hall’s phone and other electronic devices that revealed hundreds of hours of videos depicting Hall sexually assaulting numerous women, according to Bradford County District Attorney Richard Wilson.
One of those assaults that was captured on video showed Ashley Hamm participating with Hall in the sexual assault of an unconscious, pregnant woman.
Hall, who admitted to drugging and raping at least 17 women over a period of years, was originally charged with more than 500 sex crimes.
In March, he pleaded guilty to 21 sex crime- and drug-related felonies, including operating a meth lab, raping a substantially impaired person after administering drugs without the victim’s knowledge, rape by forcible compulsion, rape of an unconscious person, criminal attempted rape by forcible compulsion, and criminal attempted rape of an unconscious person.
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In June, Bradford County Judge Evan Williams III sentenced Hall to a minimum of 98 years and eight months in state prison and a maximum of 206 years.
Hamm was initially charged with multiple felony rape charges before her guilty plea.
“I am thankful that our Bradford County Drug Task Force uncovered these crimes and successfully investigated them, allowing us to bring Ms. Hamm and Mr. Hall to justice,” Wilson said after Hamm’s sentencing. “This conviction and sentence closes the book on the prosecution of these heinous acts and achieves some measure of justice for the victims.”
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