Tammel Esco who admitted he pummeled and spit on a 67-year-old woman while yelling hate-filled profanities and anti-Asian slurs were sentenced to more than 17 years of imprisonment. He was seen in a surveillance video punching the victim more than 100 times and stomping on her body with construction boots in Yonkers, New York.

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Defendant Esco, 42, pleaded guilty in September to assault in the first degree as a hate crime based on an agreement with prosecutors. Police call it the worst hate crime in Yonkers in a quarter century. The Yonkers apartment of the victim was where the incident happened. The victim, a woman of Filipino descent, walked past Esco outside the apartment building where they both lived on March 11 at around 6.08 pm. He followed her into the vestibule and hit her from behind, continuing his attack even as she fell to the ground. Shortly after the incident, the surveillance video of the attack was made public.

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The woman suffered several fractures to her face, blood to her brain, and bruising. She appeared in court on November 29 to read her impact statement, the district attorney’s office said.

“Because of the viciousness and hate of Tammel Esco, I lost the place I called home for over 24 years, the place where I raised my daughters, and my longtime neighbors,” the victim said.

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“As the attack happened, all I could think was, Please Lord let me live, please Lord my daughters need me. My only hope is that God and the criminal justice system will see fit to make sure this never happens to any other innocent family again,” she added.

Esco will be subject to post-release supervision for five years in front of Judge Anne Minihan, country DA Mimi Rocah said in a statement.

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“This is a case that has traumatized not only the victim and her family but also her neighbors in the city of Yonkers, the broader Westchester community, and the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander community really across the country,” DA Rocah said in a new briefing following the sentencing of Tammel in court.

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According to Rocah, one of the most heinous and horrific hate crimes in the region was committed during the brutal assault. On the day of the incident, Esco was detained and arrested, he has been jailed without bail ever since.