Bridgeport’s ‘King Sincere’ Gets 14 Years for Child Sex Trafficking

Darryl Morris, 33, of Bridgeport, is headed to federal prison for 168 months after being sentenced for the sex trafficking of a minor. Known by the alias “King Sincere,” Morris was handed down the sentence by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven, followed by five years of supervised release. The conviction marks the end of a years-long investigation into the exploitation of a teenage girl across state lines.

Court documents reveal the nightmare began in November 2014, when Morris encountered a 15-year-old girl already involved in prostitution in New York. Within days, he brought her to his Bridgeport home, where he began controlling her life. Ads for her sexual services were posted on Backpage.com, and she was forced to turn over all earnings to Morris. From his residence, and across multiple states, she was made to see as many as 10 customers a day—first from November 2014 to April 2015, then again from November 2015 to May 2016.

Morris didn’t just profit from the girl’s suffering—he participated in it. He engaged in sexual activity with the minor and began physically assaulting her weeks after she arrived in Connecticut. Investigators later found visible scars and signs of prolonged abuse when they located her at a hotel in East Hartford on May 2, 2016. She had been beaten again shortly before police made contact, following a call from her mother after the girl reached out for help.

Adding a chilling layer to the abuse, the victim bore a tattoo on the back of her neck: “King Sin” beneath a large barcode. Authorities say the marking symbolized Morris’s control, branding her as his property. The image became a critical piece of evidence in illustrating the psychological and physical domination Morris exerted over the child.

Morris has been in federal custody since his arrest on August 16, 2016. On May 12, 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking of a minor, avoiding trial but cementing his accountability. Judge Meyer also ordered him to pay $100,000 in restitution to the victim—a conservative tally of the money she earned under his coercion.

The case was jointly investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bridgeport Police Department, East Hartford Police Department, Stratford Police Department, and New York Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sarala V. Nagala and Stephen B. Reynolds handled the prosecution, underscoring the multi-agency effort to dismantle a trafficking operation that spanned Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.