FORMER NYPD DETECTIVE FACING TEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING HIS TWO YOUNG NIECES

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a former New York City Police Detective, Brian Tuitt, has been convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls. The victims were the 7 and 12 year old nieces of Tuitt’s ex-wife.

Tuitt, 39, of Pine Island, New York in Orange County, pled guilty to one count of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the 1st degree for his conduct involving the 12 year old victim, and one count of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the 2nd degree in connection with the charge involving the 7 year old girl.

State Supreme Court Justice John Moore set sentencing for Wednesday, March 22, 2006 in Part 70. Under terms of the plea agreement, Tuitt will be sentenced to ten years imprisonment for assaulting the older girl and concurrent term of seven years imprisonment for his crime against her younger sister.

In pleading guilty to the top count in the indictment, Tuitt admitted that he “engaged in two or more acts of sexual conduct, including at least one act of sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct, anal conduct or aggravated sexual conduct” with the victim who was “less than 13 years old.” Tuitt admitted that his criminal conduct occurred between November 17, 2002 and January 31, 2005. Tuitt’s admission involving the seven year old victim covered the period between June 1, 2004 and January 15, 2005 when he engaged in “two or more acts of sexual conduct.”

The crimes against the children occurred at Tuitt’s ex-wife’s apartment in the Bronx where, occasionally, he would spend the night after work rather than drive to his home in Orange County. Tuitt had been a New York City Police Officer for more than eighteen years when he resigned after being arrested in January 2004.

Tuitt has pled guilty to similar charges involving six other victims, all of them young girls, in Westchester and Orange Counties. He is awaiting sentencing in both jurisdictions.

The Bronx case against Tuitt is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Julia Chariott.