The sicko who followed and raped a woman inside her Soho apartment building will spend the next 18 years behind bars, a judge ordered Tuesday, while the victim bravely told him, “You did not end me” inside a Manhattan courtroom.
Ex-con Ellow Williams, 32, sat emotionless as his victim stared him down and recounted the effects of the heinous April 2024 attack — in which he trailed the then 24-year-old woman into her building, and choked and assaulted her. He pleaded guilty in July.
The young woman vowed to become the opposite of her rapist in her powerful remarks.
“I am not here to change you or even make you feel guilty. I believe that will be fruitless,” she told a silent Williams.
“For me, this will eventually become just one of many challenges in my life – painful, yes, but [it does] not define me. You did not end me,” she added, as her family proudly watched on in the gallery.
“I am still here…but while my life continues forward, yours will be halted for the next 18 years. That is the consequence of what you chose to do, but the impact of your actions reaches far beyond me.”
The victim, who the court did not name, described how her friends now squeeze her hand whenever a stranger approaches and they walk “on eggshells while silently worrying if I’m OK.”
Her long-held dreams of attending medical school — which she was supposed to begin this fall — were derailed following the sexual assault last year.
“Instead, that dream has flipped upside down. I can’t live ten hours away or alone right now, not after what you did,” she told the perv.
“But my dream still lives, and I will become someone who heals others — the antithesis of what you have chosen to be in this life.”
Williams, who pleaded guilty to first-degree rape charges for the attack and has been arrested at least 30 times, was out on parole for a robbery when he pounced on the unsuspecting woman.
“Don’t scream or I’ll kill you, I have a gun,” he seethed, sources told The Post.
While he previously denied the allegations, he told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Sara Litman he was guilty of the charges.
Despite Williams’ repulsive actions, the victim said she has no hatred for him, and instead offered up her wish for him.
“I hope that maybe one day, when you are free again, you will have enough humanity to stop yourself from inflicting this pain on anyone else because what you did does not just wound a person, it shatters the people around them,” she said.
Litman told the victim she was “incredibly brave and inspiring” moments before sentencing Williams to 18 years in prison.
“I will say that I hope medical school is still in your future because we all need doctors who have the kind of compassion and intelligence and strength that you just showed in the courtroom,” she told the woman as she sat with tears in her eyes, surrounded by loved ones.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg echoed those sentiments.
“I hope the survivor continues to heal from this horrifying attack,” he said in a statement.
“Every woman deserves to be safe while walking through the streets of Manhattan.”
