D.C. Man Sentenced To Prison For Sexually Assaulting Woman On Way To Work

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Washington, D.C. man has been sentenced to six years in prison for snatching a woman from the Rhode Island Avenue overpass, dragging her across railroad tracks and sexually assaulting her in December 2009.

Dashayn James Slade, 36, grabbed the victim early in the morning on Dec. 22, 2009 as she walked to work near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station in the 700 block of Rhode Island Ave. NE, according to the government's evidence. He pulled her over a concrete wall, across railroad tracks and snow until they reached a pile of railroad timber, where he sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said.

He was identified using DNA evidence years after the assault occurred. Slade was arrested in January 2016 and has been in custody ever since. Slade pled guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to a charge of attempted first-degree sexual abuse in July 2017.

After he gets out of prison, Slade will be placed on supervised release for the rest of his life and must register as a sex offender, prosecutors said.

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