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Three thugs convicted of gang-raping and robbing prostitutes showed little remorse Wednesday as a Bronx judge hit them with prison terms.

Joey Cruz, 29, insisted, “I ain’t no Mother Teresa but I’m no Charles Manson, either” before Justice Diane Kiesel sentenced him to 75 years to life.

Fernando Sandel, 30, who got the same stiff sentence, said the victims weren’t in court and he wouldn’t be either if he had falsely accused someone. Isaias Rivera, 35, got 50 years to life.

Prosecutors said the men maced, strangled, bound and raped women they saw as “subhuman objects, not people.”

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