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Ramon Antonio Vargas

US man who fled jail and pleaded to Trump and Kim Kardashian gets 60-year term

A road running parallel to a building.
The Orleans Justice center in New Orleans is where Antoine Massey and others escaped from. Photograph: Brett Duke/AP

A man who joined nine others in fleeing a New Orleans jail – then publicly pleaded for help from Donald Trump, a rapper whom the president pardoned and reality TV star Kim Kardashian while on the run – recently got a 60-year prison sentence for kidnapping and raping his ex-girlfriend.

Antoine Massey, 32, received his punishment on Thursday at a suburban New Orleans state courthouse, months after his jailbreak-related capture and subsequent conviction at trial of prior charges.

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