(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Danny St. Louis, 45, of Bay Shore, pleaded guilty to three counts of Rape in the Second Degree and other related charges, stemming from his commercial sexual exploitation of multiple female victims, including a 13-year-old child.
“Among this defendant’s victims was a 13-year-old child whom he deliberately got addicted to drugs before repeatedly raping and exploiting her,” said District Attorney Tierney. “No sentence can undo that harm, but today’s plea ensures he will be held accountable and that he cannot victimize anyone else for years to come.”
According to court documents and the defendant’s admissions during his guilty plea allocution, in early 2023, St. Louis met a 13-year-old child through a mutual acquaintance and provided her with cocaine. St. Louis began to communicate with the child regularly and then sexually abused her on three separate occasions. During that time, St. Louis introduced the child to crack cocaine, causing her to become addicted to the drug. The abuse continued until October 2023, after the victim had run away from a residential drug treatment facility and was found by police on October 8, 2024, in a hotel room with him.
In addition, between March 2023 and March 2024, St. Louis acted with the intent to advance or profit from the prostitution of two additional victims, and did in fact profit, from the prostitution of those women by unlawfully providing them with drugs as a method of maintaining control over them.
On March 3, 2024, St. Louis arranged to have a fourth victim, a 20-year-old woman, meet him at a hotel in Hauppauge where he was staying. St. Louis then provided that woman with crack cocaine and stayed with the victim in the hotel room for two days, prompting her family to file a missing person report with authorities. At one point, St. Louis accused the victim of stealing crack cocaine from him and forced her to undress, shower, and then have sex with him to repay her supposed debt. The sexual conduct was filmed, and St. Louis discussed a plan to use the video as an advertisement to sell the victim to sex buyers. On March 5, 2024, the victim had an opportunity to get away from St. Louis and fled the hotel to call her family.
On March 14, 2024, St. Louis was arrested after he agreed to provide a buyer with sex and drugs in exchange for money.
On May 21, 2026, St. Louis pleaded guilty to the following charges before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei:
- Three counts of Rape in the Second Degree, Class B violent felonies;
- Two counts of Sex Trafficking, Class B felonies; and
- One count of Attempted Sex Trafficking, a Class C felony.
St. Louis is due back in court on June 23, 2026, and is expected to be sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of post-release supervision. He is being represented by Ian Fitzgerald, Esq.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Dana Castaldo and Zachary Kelly of the Human Trafficking, Elder Abuse, Anti-Bias Team (HEAT) Unit. The investigation was led by Detective Joseph Collins with the Suffolk County Police Department’s Human Trafficking Investigations Unit, with assistance from other members of that unit as well as the First, Third, and Sixth Squads of the Suffolk County Police Department, as well as Detective Investigators from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
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