An Atlantic City man who admitted raping his then-girlfriend's daughters was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.
When the girls, then 12 and 13, both became pregnant during the same time frame, the Department of Child Protection and Permanency reported it to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office on Sept. 4, 2019.
“I had this man in my life for two years… a man who raped my daughters,” the girls' mother testified during a hearing in January 2021. “Today I’m here to protect them. You don’t understand what they went through. People thinking I’m this type of woman who didn’t protect my kids."
The woman, whose name is not being reported to protect the victims’ identities, had lived with the defendant in what she described in court as an abusive relationship.
At one point, the man did move out and was living in Ventnor, she testified.
“I told Mr. Banks to leave plenty of times,” she testified during a hearing last year. “He choked me in my own home. … I was getting beat into a relationship. The man wouldn’t leave my home.”‘
She said she didn’t know he was abusing her daughters.
“My (first) granddaughter was born three month, two months early,” the girls’ mother testified. “I thought (the father) was her boyfriend.”
That child was born in March 2019, with the second girl giving birth that June.
Then one of the girls got pregnant a second time.
Banks-Carey must serve all 25 years of his sentence.
Upon his release, he would have to register under Megan's Law and have parole supervision for life.
He is to have no contact with the victims or their family.
