By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — A Harlem man who dodged a rape charge only to allegedly return to the scene of his crime to brutally sexually assault another woman will likely serve six months in jail after prosecutors yet again failed to indict him on rape charges.
Taurean Williams, 25, is expected to plead guilty to coercion in the first degree as part of a plea deal that will see him serve six-months in jail, before five years of probation, his lawyer told DNAinfo.
His case will be moved to Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday and he will likely plead to the new charges on June 23, his attorney D. Andrew Marshall said.
Williams first managed to escape hard time last year. He was accused of robbing and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old on the rooftop of 550 West 153rd Street on Oct. 12, 2009, but prosecutors determined that they could not go forward with the sex crimes charge. Instead, he pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property in January.
While out on bail, Williams allegedly returned to the same secluded spot and committed a nearly identical crime on Jan. 1, prosecutors charged.
Assistant District Attorney Scott Leet declined to discuss reasons for not moving ahead with the first rape charge, but said the decision not to pursue the charge was made with the young victim's mother.
Each of the rape charges had carried a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
The twice-accused rapist will return to his family's Hamilton Heights apartment after his release, Marshall said.
He will not have to register as a sex offender because none of the charges he will have pleaded to are sex crimes under the penal code.
The Manhattan District Attorney's declined to comment and would not discuss the agreement.
