On the eve of his sentence, Scene “Didi” Comombs on Thursday told a federal judge that he was a new man after realizing that he was “broken from my core” and sometimes wondering if he was better.
The 55 -year -old Comombs wrote in a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian about a year after a year with his brain about drugs and alcohol, he can see how he was rotten before his arrest before September 2024, causing him to convict two prostitution counts. Their sentence is scheduled to begin on Friday morning.
“It has happened many times in the last one year that I wanted to give up. Some days I felt that I would be dead. The old man hit me in jail and a new version of mine was reborn. Prison Will change you or kill you – I choose to live, ”he said.
In July, a jury acquitted Comombs to reduce sex trafficking and conspiracy allegations, which means that he would not face life imprisonment. Each is sentenced to a maximum of 10 years jail in a count related to prostitution.
Comombs lawyers say they should go free this month, arguing their year behind bars, while the prosecutors want at least 11 years in jail.
Combes wrote that the last two years have been the most difficult in his life, “and I have no one to be guilty for my current reality and situation.”
“In my life, I have made many mistakes, but I am no longer running away from them,” he wrote. “I am very sorry for the injury I did, but I think only the word ‘I am sorry’ will never be good because these words cannot erase pain from the past alone.”
Comombs apologizes to attack girlfriend
Comombs apologized for killing, kicking and pulling the then girlfriend Casendra “Kaisi” Los angels In 2016, during the hotel-their two-month test, an attack on the security camera footage shown to the gamblers was captured.
Comombs wrote, “Scenes and images for me attack, who play in my head every day.” “I really lost my mind. I was wrong to put a hand on the woman I loved. I am sorry and always will be.”
Comombs also apologized to a woman, who testified under the name Pseudo “Jane“After hearing his testimony, saying” I realized that I had hurt him. I am deeply sorry for this. ,
Comombs has written that “regrets, sorrow, regret, disappointment, shame from his behavior” has made it so difficult to forgive itself “.
“It is like a deep wound that leaves an ugly mark,” he said. “I lost my way. I lost in my journey. Drugs and extra lost. My collapse lies in my selfishness.”
In jail, Combes said, he is reading, writing, working and teaching other prisoners to six -week course, “with a free game,” providing his business knowledge, as well as lessons learned from their mistakes and failures.
He is also involved in medicine, he said, to deal with issues of misuse and anger of his previous drugs. He is calm for the first time in 25 years and is committed to “to ensure” that I do not make the same mistakes again, “he wrote.
Comombs asked the judge to Mercy on behalf of his family
Comombs told Subramanian that he was asking for mercy not only for himself but also for his seven children and his 84 -year -old mother, for which he was a primary care. During the closure, he said, he missed prom and graduate and important parts of his 2 -year -old daughter’s development.
“As I write this letter to you, I am afraid of death. I am afraid to spend one and my children away from one other children,” Comombs wrote. “I no longer care for money or fame. There is nothing more important than my family.”
He said that the terms of his detention Brooklyn The federal gel is “inhuman”, writing that he is locked in a room with 25 other prisoners, with no windows, no clean air, a broken washing machine and water that they boil before drinking.
Comombs vowed to commit crime again, telling the judge that he is in jail, he has gone through a “spiritual reset”.
Instead of creating an example with a long sentence, Comombs “made me an example of” what a person can do if given a second chance “make me an example. ,
“If you allow me to go home for my family, I promise that I will not disappoint you and I will be proud of you,” he wrote.