By Forum Staff
Jason Brown was sentenced Wednesday 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, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced.
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.
“While we cannot erase the trauma they suffered, I hope that today’s sentence provides them a measure of closure,” DA Katz said.
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.
“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,” Katz said. “While we cannot erase the trauma they suffered, I hope that today’s sentence provides them a measure of closure.”
Upon his release from prison, Brown will also be required to register as a sex offender.
