New York Daily News

$1M to teen pimped out by city cop

- BY CHRISTINA CARREGA, GRAHAM RAYMAN, KERRY BURKE and LEONARD GREENE BY ANDREW KESHNER

BROOKLYN COPS used a stun gun on the wrong man Tuesday when they responded to an emergency call about a guy who was emotionall­y disturbed, witnesses and authoritie­s said.

A desperate mother dialed 911, saying her son was being disruptive and had busted up their home and run off, sources said.

Allison Wilson, 48, called police to her Crown Heights home after her son, Andre Hinkson, started wrecking the place.

“He was acting really weird,” she said. “This guy was breaking up the apartment. He was throwing and breaking up the apartment. He broke all my China.”

When uniformed and plaincloth­es cops arrived shortly before 3 p.m. at Lincoln Place and Buffalo Ave. in Crown Heights, they confronted another man, Charles (C.J.) Walcott, and tried to subdue him.

“C.J. asked them what happened and why they were arresting him,” said a witness who didn’t want to be identified.

“One of the officers said, ‘Your mother called police on you,’ and they kept jumping on him. Another officer said C.J. was resisting arrest and when they got him to the ground, they Tased him three times. Another officer said, ‘You’re going to jail.’ ”

Wilson said that police asked her to come identify her son in the back of the ambulance.

“I said, ‘That’s not my son,’ ” Wilson explained.

Instead of letting him go, they said he was resisting arrest and took him to Kings County Hospital, the witness said.After that, he was released without charges, police sources said.

“They had the intersecti­on A RUNAWAY TEEN who was pimped out by a rogue NYPD detective will get $1.25 million for her shocking ordeal, the Daily News has learned.

The pact ends a seven-year-old case in which a woman identified only as H.H. said police brass could have spared her agony and humiliatio­n if they had acted sooner to deal with former undercover Detective Wayne Taylor. Taylor had a stack of complaints for violations, including misusing his authority and having sex with prostitute­s.

Lawyers for the city and the victim, who was 13 and is now in her early 20s, reached the settlement last month and are finalizing paperwork in her Brooklyn federal case.

Taylor got hold of H.H. in January 2008 and forced her into prostituti­on before passing her to another pimp. The ex-narcotics detective (photo) later pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping.

Judge Nina Gershon decided in August it was reasonable for jurors to think if Taylor had been “adequately investigat­ed and discipline­d, he would not have felt empowered to force H.H. into prostituti­on.”

A month of horror began for the runaway girl, a former ballet dancer from Brooklyn, when she was invited to dance at a party for money. The proposal came from a relative of Zelika (Mommy Z) Brown, a woman claiming to be Taylor’s wife.

The party was at Brown’s place, and the relative “sold” H.H. to her for $500. H.H. tried to escape, but Taylor allegedly told her, “If you don’t do what I say, I will put you out on the street and arrest you for prostituti­on.” She was forced into a revolting existence of sex work and beatings and lived on Red Bulls.

H.H.’s lawyer said Taylor and Brown sold the youth to another pimp, who raped her and forced her into more prostituti­on. That pimp sent her to yet another pimp, who released her.

H.H. lives on Long Island, works and goes to school, according to her lawyer, Robert Tolchin.

“No monetary award can ever give the plaintiff back her innocence or youth, but it certainly will enable her to put her life together,” Tolchin said.

A city Law Department spokesman said, “Settling the matter was in the best interests of the parties.”

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