Child rapist held in sex trafficking charge
A convicted child rapist is back in court on charges that he trafficked a woman in the Mass and Cass area for cash and drugs.
El Mays, 49, who lists his address as a city homeless shelter, was arraigned in municipal court on charges that he trafficked a person for sexual servitude, deriving support from prostitution and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Judge Mark Hart Summerville ordered Mays held pending a dangerousness hearing today.
“This person is charged with violently exploiting a vulnerable victim,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden in a statement. “We will provide services and resources to help victims of trafficking rebuild their lives and begin to heal from their trauma, while those responsible for their exploitation will be prosecuted and held accountable.”
In 2011, Mays — now registered as a level-2 sex offender with the state — picked up a then-15-year-old girl after a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, took her to a Dorchester hotel and then raped her. He pleaded guilty in 2013 to three counts of statutory rape of a child under 16 and was sentenced to six to eight years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation.
Mays was out on probation in that case when he met a woman around where Massachusetts Avenue meets Albany Street and allegedly soon began pimping her out for cash and drugs — pocketing everything for himself, prosecutors say.
To keep the woman compliant, prosecutors say, Mays and her “dates” kept her high on crack cocaine. In at least one case, Mays allegedly stabbed her in the neck with a needle to keep her drugged against her will.
Court documents providing further details were not provided by the court by close of the business day Tuesday.