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Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Danny St. Louis, 45, of Bay Shore, was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of post-release supervision, after he pleaded guilty in May to Rape in the Second Degree and other related charges, for commercially sexually exploiting multiple female victims, including a 13-year-old child.
According to court documents and the defendant’s admissions during his guilty plea allocution, in early 2023, St. Louis met a 13-year-old child through a mutual acquaintance and provided her with cocaine. St. Louis began to communicate with the child regularly and then sexually abused her on three separate occasions. During that time, St. Louis introduced the child to crack cocaine, causing her to become addicted to the drug. The abuse continued until October 8, 2023, when the police found the victim in a hotel room with St. Louis after she had run away from a residential drug treatment facility.
In addition, between March 2023 and March 2024, St. Louis acted with the intent to advance or profit from the prostitution of two additional victims and did in fact profit from the prostitution of those women by unlawfully providing them with drugs as a method of maintaining control over them.
“If you prey on vulnerable women and children in Suffolk County, you will be investigated, prosecuted, and held accountable,” said District Attorney Tierney. “This defendant will now spend many years in prison, unable to harm another victim. I thank our law enforcement partners and the prosecutors in our human trafficking unit who work collaboratively to prosecute traffickers in Suffolk County.”
On March 3, 2024, St. Louis arranged to have a fourth victim, a 20-year-old woman, meet him at a hotel in Hauppauge where he was staying. St. Louis then provided that woman with crack cocaine and stayed with the victim in the hotel room for two days, prompting her family to file a missing person report with authorities. At one point, St. Louis accused the victim of stealing crack cocaine from him and forced her to undress, shower, and then have sex with him to repay her supposed debt.
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