Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years, 6 months in prison for rape

Disgraced actor Russell Brand was sentenced Monday to 10 and a half years in prison for raping a woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three others.The disgraced British television personality and Hollywood actor was convicted last week on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, but acquitted on two other counts of rape and an attempted indecent assault charge.A jury of eight men and four women in Southwark Crown Court, in south London, found Brand guilty of groping a woman's breasts at a London bar in 2004, sexually assaulting a woman at a London radio station in 2004 and 2005, and raping a woman at his west London home in 2009. Six women made the allegations against him, spanning from 1999 to 2009.Before the sentencing Monday, victim impact statements from the women involved in Brand's crimes were read out in court, three by the prosecutor and one by one of the women, who was hidden from everyone but the judge by a screen. "I've been in shock and turmoil for years. I was extremely upset and traumatized. I didn't have any respect for myself," the woman reading her statement said, according to CBS News partner network BBC."I was thinking I was damaged goods - scared o...