The Metro custodian accused of selling herself for sex with the help of a Metro station manager has accepted a deal from prosecutors to avoid criminal charges.
Pamela D. Goins, 45, of Capitol Heights, agreed to steer clear of being arrested over the next six months and to complete 40 hours of community service within that time in return for a record clear of prostitution charges, her attorney said.
Goins rejected the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s original offer to drop the charges against her if she enrolled in prostitute rehabilitation program called Angel’s Project Power — a deal Metro Red Line station manager Sharon Waters accepted last month.
She instead opted to go to trial, but later accepted the government’s second offer of community service.
“If you look at the situation, she’s a 45-year-old woman with two children, she’s never had a problem, and they were going to have her sit in a room for three days with drug-using prostitutes,” Joseph Werner, Goins’ attorney, said of her decision to reject the original offer.
“That program teaches you how to get off the street, how to get off drugs, and she’s not on the street, she’s not on drugs,” he said.
Metro Transit Police arrested Goins and Waters on prostitution charges in June after an undercover investigation found they arranged sexual encounters for money from within the Metro system.
According to charging documents, Waters paged Goins over the Metro loudspeaker to meet her and the officer, who was posing as an out-of-town businessman, at the Farragut North station.
Goins told the officer she would have sex with him for $200 and agreed to meet him in his hotel room later in the week, and also grabbed his crotch and made several references to sexual acts she wanted to perform with him, court documents show.
Both Goins and Waters were fired by Metro in June.
Goins is scheduled to appear in D.C. Superior Court in January, at which time the charges against her will be dropped if she upholds the terms of the deal.
