E. Flatbush man faces sex traffi cking charges
Defendant accused of assaulting 16-year-old girl and threatening to kill her
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BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Brooklyn’s top prosecutor
has indicted an East Flatbush
man for allegedly forcing a
minor into prostitution.
District Attorney Eric
Gonzalez announced the
charges on May 22 against
34-year-old Jermaine Taylor,
who is accused of assaulting
the 16-year-old victim
and threatening to kill her
if she refused to have sex for
money.
Prosecutors also allege
that Taylor violently assaulted
a pregnant woman
who attempted to free the minor.
“This defendant allegedly
treated a young girl as a
piece of property, assaulting
her and forcing her to work
in the sex trade,” Gonzalez
said. “We will now seek to
hold him accountable for his
alleged actions.”
The 12-count indictment
against Taylor includes
charges of sex traffi cking of
a minor, third-degree rape,
and endangering the welfare
of a child.
Taylor faces 32 years in
prison if convicted of the top
charges.
According to the investigation,
Taylor forced the
teenager to work as a prostitute
multiple times for a
ten-month span between
May 2018 and March 2019
in various locations around
Brooklyn in Queens. During
that time, Taylor also
promoted multiple other
girls for prostitution, according
to authorities.
On August 6, 2018, a pregnant
acquaintance of both
the minor and Taylor attempted
to free the victim,
while the three people were
traveling together in a motor
vehicle, according to investigators.
Taylor then allegedly
pushed the 28-year-old pregnant
woman out of the car,
before striking the would-be
rescuer with the vehicle, and
feeling with the minor.
Police, acting on information
obtained by the district
attorney’s offi ce, rescued the
teenage victim on March 6,
according to authorities.
Taylor is the first Brooklyn
defendant charged under
the new Sex Trafficking
of a Child statute, which
was signed into law by Gov.
Andrew Cuomo in November
2018. The new law was
designed to spare minors
from court testimony by reducing
the burden of prosecutors
to prove that force,
fraud, or coercion was used
against underage victims of
sex trafficking.
Taylor was arraigned before
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Justice Danny Chun, and was
ordered to be held on bail of
$500,000 bond or $250,000
cash. He is scheduled to return
to court on Aug. 7.
CHARGED: The District Attorney indicted an East Flatbush man on May 22 for forcing a minor into prostituiton.
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