A kidnapper who held an elderly woman hostage in a motel for two years has been given a prison sentence of almost four centuries by a California court in California.

Ian Edard Kroe, 58, subjected his now-74-year-old victim to two years of horror, repeatedly raping her and threatening her with torture if she tried to escape the hotel in which he kept her prisoner, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said.

Kroe, originally from Minnesota, struck up a relationship with his victim, a family friend, in 2016 after she reached out to him to offer her condolences following the death of his mother, according to a statement from the DA’s office.

But as his behavior became more controlling, he raped her numerous times, drained her bank accounts and kept her imprisoned in the Hyatt Hous

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