Also Pleads Guilty to Slashing Inmate in Rikers Island: Faces Up to 11 Years
Bronx District
Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a 35-year-old Bronx
man has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking related to a prostitution business he operated with
his cousin, as well as an assault that took place while he was jailed in Rikers Island.
District Attorney Clark said, “This defendant forced a runaway girl into prostitution
on the streets of Hunts Point, and in Brooklyn and Queens, by instilling fear of physical
injury. Sex trafficking is a despicable offense and this victim is slowly trying to recover
from her exploitation.
“The defendant also pleaded guilty to slashing an inmate while he was
incarcerated, contributing to the culture of brutality at Rikers Island that we have been
battling for the last eight months.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Shakiem Washington, 35, of 374 East
209th Street, pleaded guilty yesterday, August 15, 2016, to Sex Trafficking and second degree
Assault before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Alvin Yearwood. Washington faces
2 1/3 to 7 years in prison for Sex Trafficking, and four years for Assault, to run
consecutively, when he is sentenced on September 1, 2016. He will also be designated a
sex offender and receive three years post-release supervision.
According to the investigation, Washington’s cousin Daniel Washington found the
girl, then 18 years old, in early 2011 in Atlantic City, where another pimp had abandoned
her. Daniel Washington handed her over to Washington, who forced her to work as a
prostitute until June, 2011. An investigation was conducted by Bronx Vice Detective
Rose Muckenthaler.
On August 10, 2015, while in the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island,
Washington participated in an attack with three other inmates on another inmate, slashing
him in the face with a sharp object.
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