NJ Registered Sex Offender Sentenced For Trying To Have Sex With 13YO

HARRIMAN, NY — A registered sex offender was sentenced to almost 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to lure a minor to have sex. Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced Tuesday that Terrick Washington, 45, of Newark, NJ was sentenced to 262 months in prison by a district judge for attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The judge also imposed a five-year term of supervised release to follow the prison term.

Washington pleaded guilty March 8. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

“Protecting children from those who prey on them is a priority for this office and our partners at the FBI,” Kim said. “As today’s sentencing demonstrates, we will use every tool available to law enforcement to prosecute and punish those who sexually exploit children.”

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Washington was convicted in 1993 in New Jersey of aggravated sexual assault and was sentenced to a 15-year prison term. Because of that conviction, he was required to register in New Jersey as a sexual offender.

In November 2015, a person posing as a 13-year-old girl told the FBI that she had engaged in online communications with someone using the screen name “X.Terrick..X.” During the chats, “X.Terrick..X” indicated that “X.Terrick..X” wanted to engage in sexual activities with the “girl.” The FBI instructed the “girl” to continue to engage in discussions, to provide the FBI with daily logs of the communications and to attempt to arrange a meeting with “X.Terrick..X.”

Between Nov. 6, 2016, and Nov. 27, 2015, the “girl” and “X.Terrick..X,” who was later identified as Washington, engaged in a series of communications. Among other things, the “girl” told Washington she was 13 years old and he told the “girl” that he was 44 years old. During the chats, he described in detail a variety of sexual acts he wanted to perform on her and made arrangements to meet her in Orange County, NY.

Washington was arrested Nov. 28, 2016, when he arrived at the Harriman Metro-North Station in Harriman, NY. Following his arrest, authorities said he admitted that he had met a young girl on the internet while using a chat application from his cell phone and that he made arrangements to meet her so that he could have sex with her.

Initially, Washington said that the “girl” told him she was 15, but he later admitted that, in fact, the “girl” said she was 13.

He also said that he had been convicted of a sex offense when he was 18 involving a 5-year-old girl, and as a result of that conviction, he was required to register as a sex offender.

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