HOUSTON -- A former head of a Texas software company previously convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting an employee during a business trip was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison.

Henri Morris, the 67-year-old former CEO of Edible Software, brought the woman on a trip to the East Coast in May 2011, according to HoustonChronicle.com.

Prosecutors charged he put drugs in her drink so the woman would pass out and the married executive could sexually assault her. When the groggy employee awakened in a room at the Newark Airport Marriott, she was naked and her boss was taking pictures of her with his cell phone, CourthouseNews.com reported.

Just before six other women planned to testify that Morris also committed similar acts against them, he admitted in December to assaulting the woman who accompanied him to New Jersey, Click2Houston.co reported. In exchange for pleading guilty to one count of transporting a person across state lines to commit a sex crime, the other charges were dropped.

Morris will have to register as a sex offender for he rest of his life, a judge in a Houston federal courtroom said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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