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KINGSTON – A former Kingston man has pled guilty in Ulster County Court to promoting prostitution as a felony.
Gregory Williams, 39, who last lived at the Capri Motel in Port Ewen, but previously lived in the City of Kingston, admitted that on April 10, 2016, he advanced or profited from prostitution of a child under the age of 19.
Williams was charged earlier this year after a joint investigation of the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center and the Kingston City Police Department found he was prostituting a 16-year-old child.
District Attorney Holley Carnright said this is the first felony conviction for child trafficking in the county since the Department of Social Services was selected to receive funds under the Safe Harbour Program run by the state Office for Family and Child Services. While the Safe Harbour Program is primarily aimed at protecting and securing services for sexually exploited youths, the money is also used to raise community awareness and training of both service providers and law enforcement.
Williams is expected to be sentenced in February.
