Serial Bucks County rapist sentenced to 65 to 135 years in prison for ‘unspeakable behavior’

In his online dating profiles, Andrew Gallo advertised himself as a “sugar daddy” looking for younger women to spend time with, in exchange for money.

But 12 women experienced something far darker, Bucks County prosecutors said Wednesday. Gallo gave them alcohol spiked with ecstasy and methamphetamine to lower their inhibitions and raped them during violent sexual encounters that left them bruised, battered, and ashamed.

And for those crimes, Gallo, 41, was sentenced to 65 to 135 years in state prison, a term that Bucks County Court Judge Stephen Corr said was necessary given his “unspeakable and shocking behavior.”

“I believe each one of these women deserve justice,” Corr said, calling Gallo a methodical predator who carefully planned each encounter. “You don’t get a bulk discount in your sentence because you did this to 12 women.”

Gallo, of Levittown, pleaded no contest in December to more than three dozen counts of rape, strangulation and drug offenses for the attacks, which took place between 2018 and his arrest in 2024.

First Assistant District Attorney Kristin McElroy outlined each encounter during Wednesday’s proceeding. They all followed a similar pattern: Women met Gallo on dating sites including SugarDaddyMeet, arranged to visit him at his home, and drank alcohol he provided them.

The women, some who did not drink regularly, said they felt bizarre afterward, either unusually aroused or manic, McElroy said. Gallo then initiated sex with them, sometimes violently, including choking some of the women until they lost consciousness.

In many cases, the women said their memories of their time with Gallo were spotty, waking up while having sex with him.

While being treated at hospitals after the encounters, the women tested positive for methamphetamine, ecstasy or other drugs. None told police they agreed to take those drugs with Gallo.

Police later found a tequila bottle in Gallo’s home that was spiked with methamphetamine, as well as searches on his personal computer for violent porn that mirrored his own behavior.

Gallo’s attorney, Keith Williams, told Corr that Gallo was in the throes of a serious drug addiction when he assaulted the women. He pleaded no contest, Williams said, because he couldn’t remember the details of the encounters, given his own addiction.

Williams argued that many of the women went on subsequent dates with Gallo after being drugged, and that “in his own drug-addled mind,” he didn’t believe he was doing anything wrong.

Further, Williams said Gallo truly believed the women were willing to participate in taking drugs and having aggressive sex, given the unspoken culture of the dating sites they used.

“This doesn’t mean what he did was not a crime,” Williams said. “But it gives him pause to understand: ‘This is a sex site, these women keep coming back, is what I’m doing wrong?’”

Gallo, in addressing the judge, said Wednesday that methamphetamine is “the devil,” and said he has cleaned up his life while in prison.

“I don’t think saying sorry 1,000 times or 1 million times is enough,” he said. “I don’t know what to say. I don’t think I have any words to make up for the hurt and pain I caused these women.”

McElroy, the prosecutor, said Gallo was deserving of a long sentence. But for his arrest, she said, his behavior would have continued.

“He was just trying to pretend to be a charming, single man looking for women, and these women thought they found actually a nice guy,” she said. “And what happened to them is what nightmares are made of.”