Press Release

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jason Brown was sentenced today to 40 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting two child relatives beginning when the youngest of the girls was 8 years old and the oldest victim was 10.

District Attorney Katz said: “This sexual predator stole the innocence of two young girls, children who bravely stepped forward to tell us about the horrors they were forced to endure. While we cannot erase the trauma they suffered, I hope that today’s sentence provides them a measure of closure.”

Brown, 37, of Rockaway Beach, was convicted by a jury last month of two counts of predatory sexual assault of a child; course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree; rape in the first and second degrees; three counts of criminal sexual act in the first degree; one count of criminal sexual act in the second degree; two counts of assault in the second degree; two counts of criminal contempt in the first degree; and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Supreme Court Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant sentenced Brown to an indeterminate term of 40 years to life in prison. Brown will also be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.

According to the charges and trial testimony:

• On July 25, 2019, Brown called the victims, who were 13 and 9 years of age at the time, into his bedroom. He beat them with a belt and then engaged in acts of oral sexual conduct with them.
• Brown then ordered the 9-year-old to leave the room, leaving him alone with the 13-year-old girl, whom he raped.
• The older girl later snuck out and fled to a nearby police precinct, where she told an officer about what Brown had done.
• Brown was arrested shortly afterward.
• The girls later disclosed a history of sexual and physical abuse by Brown that spanned approximately two years.

Assistant District Attorney Marilyn Filingeri, Supervisor in the District Attorney’s Homicide Bureau, prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Eric Rosenbaum, Chief of the Special Victims Bureau, Debra Lynn Pomodore, Senior Deputy Bureau Chief, and Brian Hughes, Deputy Chief, and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Special Prosecutions Joyce A. Smith as well as Assistant District Attorneys John Kosinski, Homicide Bureau Chief, Peter J. McCormack, III, Senior Deputy Bureau Chief, and Karen Ross, Deputy Bureau Chief, under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Shawn Clark.