A man accused of raping his teenage relative, secured a rather lenient plea deal from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and then went on to allegedly sexually terrorize five people in the Bronx just a month later.
Justin Washington, 25, was promised a measly 30-day jail sentence, along with five years of probation, after he agreed in August to plead down to a charge of coercion in his Manhattan rape case.
However, just a week before his sentencing on Wednesday, Washington went on a sex-crime spree. He attacked four women and a man near the homeless shelter where he was living in the Bronx.
After finding out about the Sept. 15 arrest, prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said they were reconsidering the sentence recommended with the plea deal, which some cops said should never have been offered in the first place.
“How does a man who rapes an innocent teenage girl walk the streets to sexually attack five more innocent people, including a homeless woman?” one Manhattan cop angrily vented.
Another police source scoffed at the 30-day sentence, pointing out that the original charge of rape Washington faced could have gotten him locked up for up to 25 years, if convicted.
“That is a sweet deal. He went from rape one and facing 25 years in jail, which is hard time, to 30 days,” the officer said. “What a joke.”
The second-degree coercion charge Washington agreed to plead to also carries a maximum penalty of 16 months to four years behind bars, much more than the 30 days offered by the DA.
“These were very traumatizing crimes and he shouldn’t have been allowed to walk the streets. What about the teenager?” a police source said, adding, “The DA should be coming up with programs for victims, not criminals.”
Emily Tuttle, a spokesperson for Bragg’s office, defended the plea deal originally offered to Washington.
“Our experienced sex crimes prosecutors conducted a thorough investigation and were in regular contact with the survivor’s family throughout this case. Based on the evidence, we determined that this was an appropriate plea to spare the young survivor from having to testify, while holding Washington accountable for his conduct,” Tuttle said in an email.
“As the investigation into this week’s extremely disturbing allegations in the Bronx continues, we will determine whether to ask for a lengthier jail sentence.”
Washington’s first run in landed him behind bars on February 23, after a teenage relative reported to police that he raped her while the two were watching television together.
He was hit with charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and forcible touching and thrown in jail on a measly $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond, despite prosecutors asking a judge to set a $100,000 bail in connection with the case.
About three weeks later, prosecutors reduced Washington’s charges to third-degree rape after they determined they didn’t have enough evidence, and he was sprung from jail when a judge agreed to reduce his bail to $12,000.
Washington, who has no prior arrests, made all of his court appearances, but last Thursday, less than a week before he was set to be sentenced, he allegedly used his last days as a free man to commit a string of attacks.
The spree started at 8:20 a.m., when he crawled into an 18-year-old man’s window, put his hands in the man’s underwear and demanded money while gripping the victim’s buttocks.
“Can I get a dollar, bro?” Washington asked the victim, who obliged the request. Washington refused to take the dollar bill, but then asked for it again before telling the victim, “Never mind, you’re not understanding” and fleeing through the window.
About 40 minutes later, Washington crept up the fire escape of a building on Davidson Avenue and began banging on the apartment window of a 26-year-old woman, who was at home with her 9-month-old son at the time.
When the woman opened her curtains, she saw Washington masturbating on her fire escape.
Half an hour later, Washington burst into a 49-year-old woman’s apartment in the same building and attempted to rape her. He pushed the woman down on her bed, pulled up her nightgown, climbed on top of her and masturbated as he asked, “Can I get a dollar?,” prosecutors alleged. As the sicko pushed the woman’s legs apart and smelled them, she bit his hand, scratched him and then whacked him in the head with a hammer.
Fifteen minutes later, Washington went to an apartment on Aqueduct Avenue, slipped his hand through a woman’s bathroom window, stole her underwear and then began masturbating.
The disturbing rampage ended about five minutes later when Washington found his final victim, a homeless woman who was sleeping in the lobby of the Aqueduct Avenue building.
He was caught on surveillance footage molesting the woman, pulling down her pants, touching her buttocks and masturbating.
The 26-year-old woman who caught Washington masturbating on her fire escape said, “I felt so shaken up, and scared. It was terrifying!”
“I’m not surprised that he was out on the streets. Isn’t that what they do? Our justice system is really messed up and lets crazy people like him run free,” the woman concluded the conversation.
The NYPD’s Bronx warrant squad picked Washington up two days later at a homeless shelter on Phelan Place and hit him with a slew of charges, including attempted rape, burglary, forcible touching and sexually motivated felony.
Prosecutors with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office asked the court to remand him into custody or set a $500,000 cash bail or $1,500,000 bond in the case.
The justice ultimately set a $50,000 cash bail, or $150,000 bond, and sent Washington back to Rikers Island.
The case will be presented to a grand jury this week.
How are these people even judges and prosecutors. They should be charged wit accessory after the fact.
that guy was not playing he was trying to share that ole funky dick to any and everybody, now he should have went after that DA. mate and hit them with that dick, since he only received a pat on the back, just to show that DA how happy to receive that sentence, also I just wonder if he would have got off easy if that sick ass son of a gun would have humped a bunch of white females , then again they probably would not have seek charges after him hitting them with his ole black and musty daddy long dick
You are all over the place with your comments. It should not matter about the Race or the size or smell of the anatomy. More important are the immoral, unethical, and illegal actions of the perpetrator and the legal system. The legal system, in my opinion, certainly failed miserably in this case.
Wonder what those corrupt prosecutors would do if that piece of s___ raped their daughter???
These Demon filled prosecutors and judges will reap what they sow! And not a minute too soon!!!
They are disgusting!!! 🤮 👿
This is Biden’s America, the squad and the rest of liberal America, they have plenty of security at your expense, now we have another monster to deal with. I guess that’s racist to call a black man who rapes anything bad, maybe Black Lives Matter will come after me.