A private equity executive turned his Manhattan apartment into a torture chamber of “grotesque sexual violence," prosecutors said Thursday. The 43-year-old is accused of raping six women over five months in a depraved spree in which he punched, waterboarded and shocked victims with a cattle prod and kept recordings of the assaults as trophies.
Ryan Hemphill, who remains jailed after his arrest last month, pleaded not guilty to a 116-count indictment charging him with predatory sexual assault and other crimes dating to last October. He didn't say anything else during the proceeding, sitting quietly in a khaki jail suit with his cuffed hands clutching a cross behind his back.
