Friday, March 18, 2005
D.A. BROWN: QUEENS RESIDENT SENTENCED TO THREE TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTING TO PROSTITUTE A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Queens man has been sentenced to up to six years in prison for attempting to prostitute a girl who was under 16 years old.
District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant has admitted his guilt, waived his right to appeal and now been sent to prison for destroying the innocence of a child who has been left emotionally scarred for life.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as John Fleury, 25, of 113 Beach 56th Street, Far Rockaway, Queens, a part-time assembler. The defendant pled guilty on February 16, 2005 to Attempted Promoting Prostitution in the Second Degree before Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt who imposed today’s indeterminate sentence of three years to six years in prison. Additionally, the court ordered that the defendant, upon his conditional release from prison on parole, must enroll in the State Sexual Offenders Registry.
District Attorney Brown said that the defendant admitted that between April 1 and June 30, 2004 he knowingly attempted to advance or profit from the prostitution of a minor child.
The investigation was conducted by Detective Ralph Mosca of the New York City Police Department’s Queens Juvenile Crime Squad under the supervision of Sergeant Susan McConnell and the overall supervision of Chief of Detectives George F. Brown.
Assistant District Attorney Susan Lee Kim of the District Attorney’s Special Proceedings Bureau Computer Crime Unit prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Anthony M. Communiello, Bureau Chief, and Oscar W. Ruiz, Deputy Bureau Chief, and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Investigations Peter A. Crusco and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Investigations Linda M. Cantoni.