Some of the women who were attacked in a spree of robberies and sexual assaults that targeted elderly women in Long Beach last year got the chance to face their attacker in court and explain the damage he’d done at a hearing Tuesday.

One woman, who was identified only as Sharon, said the attack has left her with chronic wounds to her body and psyche.

“Trauma changes DNA. My DNA has been altered by the attack,” Sharon said in a statement that was read aloud by a friend as she stood alongside him.

The statement went on to describe how Melvin Earl Farmer Jr., a 40-year-old man from Lynwood, barged through Sharon’s door, beat her and sexually assaulted her. The attack left her with lasting damage to her leg and hand along with permanent disfigurement where he hit her in the face, she said.

“I will notice this every time I look in the mirror or brush my teeth,” she said.

In July, jurors convicted Farmer of 13 felonies including sexual battery by restraint, dissuading a witness, assault, robbery, elder abuse, rape, three counts of residential robbery and three counts of burglary.

During a weeklong spree between Feb. 2 and Feb. 9, 2017, Farmer sexually assaulted a woman in her 60s and a woman in her 90s, prompting police to warn elderly women to be on the lookout for a man who would come to the door and then force his way inside. Farmer was also accused of attacking three other elderly women during that span of time. Most of his crimes were at a senior housing complex near Atlantic Avenue and Via Carmelitos, according to authorities.

In her statement, Sharon said her sense of safety has been stolen from her.

“I had to have the doorbell taken out [because] when I hear a doorbell it causes me massive anxiety,” she said. “I no longer feel safe, especially after dark.”

Sharon’s statement also addressed her attacker directly.

“Mr. Farmer, I do not wish any harm to come to you,” she said. “I would suggest that you take advantage of any counseling that is offered to you. Use your time to take any classes offered and explore what made you commit these crimes. Your choices and actions have permanently changed your life as well as my own.”

Another woman, a 24-year-old, also had a statement read aloud at the hearing. She said she’s suffered from depression and anxiety since Farmer sexually assaulted her in January 2017, weeks before the attacks in Long Beach.

“Fear and myself have become well acquainted,” she said.

Jurors ultimately couldn’t decide whether Farmer was guilty of that rape. They deadlocked on that charge, according to court records.

Farmer was originally scheduled to be sentenced for his crimes Tuesday, but a judge delayed the final decision until later this month.