An Irish firefighter who raped a woman while visiting Boston for the St. Patrick’s Day parade last year was sentenced to up to nine years in prison Thursday despite letters of support from his wife and kids.

Terence Crosbie, 39 — who was convicted of the disturbing, 15-minute attack at the city’s posh Omni Parker House on March 15, 2024 — pleaded with the judge to let him return to his family in Ireland at the hearing.

But Suffolk Superior Court Judge Joshua Wall called the rape “an act of extraordinary sexual violence” that unfolded while the victim was “safely asleep, under the covers in a locked hotel room” — and handed down the seven to nine-year sentence, according to the Boston Globe .

His lawyers had filed 80 pages of letters in his support, including one from his wife, and

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