Sex Fiend Gets ‘Sweet’ Deal From Manhattan DA Bragg on Teen Rape Charge — Then Attacks 5 Others

A man accused of raping his teenage relative secured a sweetheart plea deal from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — and then went on to allegedly sexually terrorize five people in the Bronx just a month later, The Post has learned.

Justin Washington, 25, was promised a plum 30-day jail sentence, along with five years of probation, after he agreed in August to plead down to a charge of coercion in his Manhattan rape case.

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But just a week before he was set to be sentenced Wednesday, Washington allegedly went on a sex-crime spree, attacking four women and a man near the homeless shelter where he was living in the Bronx.

After finding out about the Sept. 15 arrest, prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said they were reconsidering the sentence recommended with the plea deal — which some cops said should never have been offered in the first place.

“How does a man who rapes an innocent teenage girl walk the streets to sexually attack [five] more innocent [people], including a homeless woman?” one Manhattan cop fumed.

Another police source scoffed at the 30-day sentence, pointing out that the original charge of rape Washington faced could have gotten him locked up for up to 25 years, if convicted.

“That is a sweet deal. He went from rape one and facing 25 years in jail, which is hard time, to 30 days,” the officer said.

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The second-degree coercion charge Washington agreed to plead to also carries a maximum penalty of 16 months to four years behind bars — much more than the 30 days offered by the DA.

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Washington first landed behind bars on February 23, after a teenage relative told police he raped her while the two were watching television together in East Harlem, law enforcement sources said.

He was hit with charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and forcible touching and thrown in jail on a measly $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond — despite prosecutors asking a judge to set a $100,000 bail in connection with the case.

About three weeks later, prosecutors reduced Washington’s charges to third-degree rape after they determined they didn’t have enough evidence, and he was sprung from jail when a judge agreed to reduce his bail to $12,000.

Washington, who has no prior arrests, made all of his court appearances, but last Thursday — less than a week before he was set to be sentenced — he allegedly used his last days as a free man to commit a string of attacks, court records say.

The spree started at 8:20 a.m., when he crawled into an 18-year-old man’s window, put his hands in the man’s underwear and demanded money while gripping the victim’s buttocks, prosecutors alleged.

“Can I get a dollar, bro?” Washington allegedly asked the victim, who obliged the request.

The creep refused to take the dollar bill, but then asked for it again before telling the victim, “Never mind, you’re not understanding” and fleeing through the window, prosecutors said.

About 40 minutes later, Washington allegedly crept up the fire escape of a building on Davidson Avenue and began banging on the apartment window of a 26-year-old woman, who was at home with her 9-month-old son at the time, according to prosecutors and sources.

When the woman opened her curtains, she saw Washington masturbating on her fire escape, prosecutors alleged.

Half an hour later, Washington allegedly burst into a 49-year-old woman’s apartment in the same building and attempted to rape her, court records say.

He pushed the woman down on her bed, pulled up her nightgown, climbed on top of her and masturbated as he asked, “Can I get a dollar?,” prosecutors alleged.

As the sicko pushed the woman’s legs apart and smelled them, she bit his hand, scratched him and then whacked him in the head with a hammer, court records say.

Fifteen minutes later, Washington went to an apartment on Aqueduct Avenue, slipped his hand through a woman’s bathroom window, stole her underwear and then began masturbating, prosecutors said.

The disturbing rampage ended about five minutes later when Washington allegedly found his final victim — a homeless woman who was sleeping in the lobby of the Aqueduct Avenue building.

He was caught on surveillance footage molesting the woman, pulling down her pants, touching her buttocks and masturbating, prosecutors said.

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