King County prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old Shoreline man with second-degree promoting prostitution in connection with a 21-year-old woman who said she had worked as a prostitute for the man for about four months.
Kent Police arrested Joseph Anthony McDaniels April 30 in his black Ford Expedition outside of the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent after the woman notified authorities about violation of a no-contact order she had against McDaniels. McDaniels had driven the woman to the RJC to drop a no-contact order between them. Instead, once inside the woman called police about McDaniels.
The woman told detectives she saw a chance while visiting the RJC to get away from McDaniels. She said she had known him for about one year and had been his girlfriend for six months.
Prosecutors charged McDaniels May 3 with second-degree promoting prostitution and violation of a domestic violence court order. He allegedly made as much as $2,000 per month from the woman working as a prostitute for him, according to charging papers.
McDaniels is scheduled to be arraigned May 15 at the RJC. He remains in custody at the RJC’s county jail. Bail was set at $200,000.
According to court documents, McDaniels was sentenced March 23 for fourth-degree assault against the same woman. After his release April 3, he contacted the same woman and forced her back into prostitution.
He threatened to shoot up her house and beat her up if she did not work for him. He also threatened that if he ever went back to jail because of her he would tie her and her brother to a tree in the woods and she would have to watch while he tortured and killed his brother. And then he would torture her and she would have to beg for her life.
Kent Police first contacted McDaniels in November 2011 in a dispute over money involving a suspected pimp at a Kent trailer park. He told officers he contracted with an escort company to retrieve money from clients who refused to pay for services. No arrests were made. The woman who was the escort was the same woman who turned in McDaniels outside the RJC.
In December, Auburn Police arrested McDaniels for fourth-degree assault against the same woman.
Kent detectives later determined the woman had been living with McDaniels since he got out of jail April 3. He reportedly took her to Portland, Ore., to work as a prostitute the weekend of April 20. She did five tricks in one day with customers and turned over all of the money to McDaniels.
Detectives also found out McDaniels placed ads on www.backpage.com that featured photos of the woman. Detectives noted the website is often used to find customers for prostitutes.
McDaniels had the woman live with him and his wife at his Shoreline home. McDaniels reportedly told his wife she could divorce him if she didn’t like the living arrangement.
McDaniels has a criminal record that includes first-degree robbery with sexual motivation in 1997, first-degree burglary with sexual motivation in 1997 and first-degree robbery in 1995. In the 1997 case, he responded to a classified ad to sell a trumpet and ended up in the 16-year-old girl’s home where he pointed a gun at the girl and ordered her upstairs where he raped her and forced her to perform oral sex on him before he tied her up and fled the home. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
The King County Sheriff’s Office lists McDaniels on its website as a Level 2 sex offender. Level 2 offenders are considered to have a moderate risk of re-offending.
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