A man who kidnapped and abused a 74-year-old woman for years has been sentenced to 394 years in prison.

Prosecutors say the relationship started as a friendship but turned ugly in 2020 when the suspect began raping and performing sex acts on his victim.

It started out as a friendship, but prosecutors allege it quickly turned into a nightmare kidnapping after Ian Edard Kroe held a 74-year-old woman captive in a hotel for two years, repeatedly raping her and threatening to torture her if she tried to escape.

On Tuesday, 58-year-old Kroe was sentenced to 394 years to life in prison in a disturbing case that San Mateo County Dist. Atty. Stephen Wagstaffe said was unlike anything he or his prosecutors had seen before. He was convicted Feb. 20 of 33 felony counts.

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