A man who passed himself off as a Hare Krishna 'guru ' has been sentenced to 19 years in jail for repeatedly raping three teenage girls he turned into mesmerised sex slaves . Sean O'Neil , an Australian 43-year-old computer programmer , was found guilty of multiple rape and of corrupting minors by a closed-door appeals court in the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence on Monday . O'Neil forced a total of four teenage girls to live as naked slaves in his French Riviera apartment in the town of Valbonne , where he subjected them to pornographic photo sessions and made them recite the Hare Krishna mantra 1,700 times a day . Sean O'Neil , an Australian 43-year-old computer programmer , was sentenced to 19 years in jail after being found guilty of multiple rape and of corrupting minors on Monday . The three girls he regularly raped between 2009 and 2010 while they were aged around 15 and made psychologically dependent on the Australian . The court rejected O'Neil 's argument that the sex was consensual to confirm a lower court 's October 2013 conviction , and to lengthen an original sentence of 15 years in prison . It also barred him from re-entering France once he had served his time . O'Neil forced a total of four teenage girls to live as naked slaves in his French Riviera apartment in the town of Valbonne , where he subjected them to pornographic photo sessions . One expert testified that the girls cooperated because they were in a trance-like state approaching 'hypnosis ' . The victims described O'Neil as a 'guru ' who urged them to recruit other young virgins of the same age with the aim of starting a commune in Australia . The crimes came to light in 2010 after one of the girls described what they were enduring to a school employee .
Sean O'Neil was found guilty of multiple rape and of corrupting minors . He was sentenced to 19 years in prison at a Australian court on Monday . O'Neil subjected the teenagers to pornographic photo sessions and made them recite the Hare Krishna mantra 1,700 times a day . One expert said the girls cooperated because they were in a trance-like state approaching 'hypnosis '