A judge sentenced a retired handyman to 18 years to life in prison Tuesday, calling the defendant “a sick coward” and “an evil man” for keeping five women as sex slaves in a concrete bunker.
John Jamelske, 68, pleaded guilty last month to kidnapping five women and girls and holding them from 1988 to 2003 at his home in suburban DeWitt.
Jamelske was arrested in April after a teenager was able to sneak a phone call to her sister when Jamelske took her out on errands after six months of captivity.
