New York Daily News

SEX CREEP DEAL

B’klyn predator will do 10 years in vile spree

- BY CHRISTINA CARREGA

A SEXUAL PREDATOR who was facing up to 30 years behind bars in attacks on three women instead got a sweetheart deal from a Brooklyn judge, the Daily News has learned.

Jadeocus Muhammad admitted Tuesday that he entered three women’s apartment buildings — two in Crown Heights, in August 2014, and one in Bushwick in May 2016. Muhammad molested women in each case, authoritie­s have said.

In exchange for his guilty plea, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Sciarrino will sentence Muhammad (right) to 10 years in prison, over prosecutor­s’ objections.

The 19-year-old man was captured on video surveillan­ce as he left a Crown Heights building on Aug. 9, 2014, after grabbing the buttocks of a woman, according to authoritie­s. Shortly after that assault, he allegedly molested and attempted to rape another woman in a nearby building.

The teen groper was busted a few days later and held on $10,000 bail, which was paid on April 29, 2016, court records show.

Plea bargains with Brooklyn prosecutor­s were off the table for Muhammad when he committed yet another sexual offense on May 31, 2016, this time against a 25-year-old woman, a law enforcemen­t source said.

It was the 2016 attack, and Muhammad himself, that led to his arrest, police sources have said. During the course of the attack, and while smoking a cigarette, he told his victim his name and suggested she look him up on Facebook, sources said. Between giving his name and the DNA he left behind on his cigarette, Muhammad was not hard to find. On Tuesday, he was about to make nearly as spectacula­r a bad decision when Sciarrino made the offer, and even said he would consolidat­e both cases. Muhammad turned down the judge’s offer, against his attorneys’ advice, before jury selection began.

If convicted at trial, he faced up to 15 years in prison in the 2014 case and an additional 15 years in the 2016 attack.

Hours after rejecting the plea deal, Muhammad changed his mind and pleaded guilty to burglary as a sexually motivated felony.

It wasn’t the first time Muhammad snubbed a judge’s generous offer.

In December, he rejected a 15-year deal from Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice William Harrington and went to trial — where the victims of the 2014 attack testified against him.

During closing arguments, Harrington closed the courtroom to the public for an unexplaine­d reason and caused a mistrial, a law enforcemen­t source said.

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