Dallas lawyer who exposed himself at office staffed with teenage girls gets 8 years
Dallas Morning News

A Dallas defense attorney with a penchant for masturbating in front of the teenage girls he hired to work in his law office has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Rayan Ganesh, 34, was convicted Wednesday by a Dallas County jury on two counts of felony indecency with a child by exposure. State District Judge Amber Givens-Davis decided his sentence Thursday.

Ganesh was also a serial offender of the barratry laws, roaming the halls of the criminal courts and stalking defendants. About 30 lawyers showed up for his sentencing, and not as character witnesses for the defense. The prosecutor told Texas Lawyer “I had all of the lawyers in the courtroom stand up. And I said ‘Each of you are victims of this,’” Michael Snipes said, referring to Ganesh’s unethical behavior. “Because you make us look like the worst nightmare of the public as to what lawyers are all about.’”

“He preyed upon defendants when they were at their weakest moment and took advantage. And then he used them to take advantage of these little girls,” Snipes said. “The barratry part is problematic. But him using that to feed his salacious desires is really what made it bad.”