Woman Pimped Out By Queens Ex-Cop Gets $1.25M Settlement: Report

QUEENS, NY -- Nearly a decade after a Brooklyn runaway was pimped out by an NYPD cop at just 13 years old, she'll receive a $1.25 million settlement for the nightmare, the New York Daily News reported.

Ex-NYPD detective Wayne Taylor bought the then-13-year-old girl from another pimp for $500 after she ran away from her Brooklyn home in 2008 and forced her to sell sex at parties in Queens, prosecutors said.

Years later, the woman - now in her 20s and identified by her initials as H.H. - argued in Brooklyn federal court police could have saved her from the humiliating nightmare by simply looking into the complaints piling up against Taylor, including allegations he misused his authority and had sex with prostitutes, according to the Daily News.

Lawyers for the city and H.H. reached the $1.25 million settlement last month and are now finalizing the paperwork, the news outlet reported.

“No monetary award can ever give the plaintiff back her innocence or youth, but it certainly will enable her to put her life together,” the woman's lawyer, Robert Tolchin told the Daily News.

H.H. met Taylor and his supposed wife Zelika Brown, both from Queens, at a party soon after she ran away from home in January 2008. Brown's relative offered to get her into the business of dancing for money, according to charges from the 2008 case.

That relative would end up "selling" H.H. for $500 to Brown, according to the Daily News. For months, the pair dragged her to parties in Queens to turn tricks, instructing her to tell people she was 19 and charged $40 for oral sex and $80 for intercourse, the charges state.

From Jan. 10 - 27, the pair forced the girl to perform sex acts on around 20 men, prosecutors said. When she tried to leave, Taylor allegedly threatened to use his status as a cop to have her arrested for prostitution.

Taylor and Brown eventually sold the young girl to another pimp, who raped her and forced her into more prostitution before eventually selling her to a pimp who set her free, according to the Daily News.

Taylor, a 14-year-member of the NYPD, pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted kidnapping in July 2008 shortly after resigning from his post at the police department.

He and Brown were each sentenced that August to three and a half years in prison followed by five years of probation.

"Instead of acting as a police officer - as Taylor was at the time - he admittedly took advantage of the child and, along with his co-defendant, forced her into prostitution," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement after the sentencing.

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