WASHINGTON - A 38-year-old District of Columbia man, Kevin A. McSwain, has pled guilty to the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl in March 2008, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today.

McSwain entered his guilty plea on Friday, October 17, 2008, to one count of First Degree Child Sexual Abuse. The defendant faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years and a likely prison sentence of 90 to 180 months under the voluntary sentencing guidelines. McSwain is scheduled to be sentenced on January 9, 2009, before the Honorable Neal Kravitz of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

According to the government’s evidence, on March 21, 2008, two fifteen-year-old girls knocked on the door to the defendant’s apartment on 12th Street in Northeast Washington, D.C. (PSA 502) to ask to use a phone to call for a ride home because the buses had stopped running. When the girls were unable to reach a family member for a ride, the defendant told them they could stay until the buses began running again. During the night, the defendant took the victim to a bathroom where he forced her to perform oral sex on him. Following the sexual abuse, the defendant told both girls to get into his car, and that he would give them a ride home. The two girls left the apartment with him, but rather than enter the car, the two girls ran. One of the girls went to the Fourth District police station, where she reported the sexual abuse.

In announcing the guilty plea, U.S. Attorney Taylor praised the hard work of several members of the Metropolitan Police Department: Detective Jeffrey Folts of MPD’s Youth Division, Officer Demika Hutchings of the Fourth District, and Mobile Crime Lab Evidence Technician James Savage. In addition, the U.S. Attorney acknowledged the great work of Victim Advocate Tracey Hawkins, Paralegal Specialist Cynthia Muhammad, Legal Assistant Donice Adams, and the entire Litigation Technology Support Unit. Finally, the U.S. Attorney commended the work of Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Rubenstein, who indicted and is prosecuting the case.