Overview

• Common Pleas Judge David Matia imposed the sentence after Mann was convicted of attacking six women in Cleveland.
• Jurors found him guilty on 16 of 18 counts, including eight rapes, five kidnappings, two gross sexual impositions and attempted rape, with two counts dismissed.
• Prosecutors said Mann contacted women through online ads using aliases such as Rick, Rico, Ricardo or R and promised about $2,000 to work private events or high-stakes poker games.
• Once the women traveled to Cleveland from cities including Akron and Canton, he demanded cash for supposed hotel deposits, isolated them and assaulted them between May 2021 and March 2023.
• Court records and testimony detailed incidents at downtown locations, and prosecutors described Mann as a dangerous serial predator.