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Quincy “bad-breath rapist” sentenced to at least 18 years in prison
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Quincy “bad-breath rapist” sentenced to at least 18 years in prison

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Tuen Kit Lee, 55, was convicted of aggravated rape in connection with a 2005 assault. He was on the run for 17 years before being captured in California earlier this year.

Quincy “bad-breath rapist” sentenced to at least 18 years in prison

Tuen Kit Lee, also known as the “Bad Breath Rapist,” will be arraigned in Norfolk Superior Court for sentencing on August 15. (Stuart Cahill/Pool)

A man known as the “Bad Breath Rapist” was sentenced Thursday to at least 18 years in prison after spending 17 years on the run since the 2005 rape, authorities announced.

Tuen Kit Lee, 55, was convicted of aggravated rape in connection with an assault in which he broke into a woman’s Quincy apartment, threatened her with a knife, bound her with zip ties and sexually assaulted her, according to the Norfolk County district attorney.

The woman attacked was a waitress at a Quincy restaurant where Lee worked as a manager, prosecutors said. Lee was wearing a mask, but she recognized her “putrid breath” as being due to taking traditional herbal medicines, prosecutors said.

Lee fled Massachusetts during his 2007 trial before being convicted of kidnapping and aggravated rape, the district attorney said. His case has since been featured nationally on “America’s Most Wanted,” which authorities say could help track down the fugitive.

Last summer, Massachusetts State Police announced a $10,000 reward for any information leading to his arrest when authorities discovered he might be in the Diablo, California, area. He was captured earlier this year.

Lee was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison and five years of probation with substantial conditions, Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said.

“The State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section and Quincy Police never forgot this case, and that persistence ultimately led to Lee’s capture in California,” Morrisey said. “We strongly believed that a substantial period of incarceration was appropriate given the brutality of the crime and the lack of remorse demonstrated.”

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