East Side Realtor Found Guilty of Attempting to Entice 10-Year-Old Girl into Sexual Activity

East Side Realtor Found Guilty of Attempting to Entice 10-Year-Old Girl into Sexual Activity

An East Side realtor has been convicted of attempting to engage in illicit sexual activity with a 10-year-old girl, announced U.S. Attorney Aaron Weisman on Tuesday.

Thomas McLucky Hammond, 52, was found guilty of one count of attempting to persuade, entice, induce or coerce a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity. He previously worked for the firm Mott and Chace Sotherby's and Coleman Realtors according to his LinkedIn page. A woman answering the phone said he is no longer with the company.

Hammond is scheduled to be sentenced on November 14, 2019.

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He is currently detained at the Wyatt Detention Center.

The Investigation

According to the government’s evidence presented at trial, in June 2017, Hammond responded to an advertisement in the “casual encounters” section of Craiglsist.com. 

Over a period of three days, Hammond communicated with a man he believed was the step-father of a 10-year-old girl in Warwick.  Hammond asked the step-father if he was sexually abusing the 10-year-old, and proposed joining in the abuse at a pool party at the family’s residence. 

Hammond agreed to meet the step-father in a parking lot on Post Road in Warwick before returning to the home for the pool party.  When Hammond arrived at the parking lot on June 21, 2017, he was arrested by members of the Rhode Island Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, a federal and state task force designed to investigate and prevent online child sexual exploitation.

The purported step-father was actually a member of the ICAC operating in an undercover capacity.

According to the U.S. Attorney, at trial, Hammond claimed that he is a gay man with no sexual interest in female children.  Hammond testified he receives sexual gratification from talking to straight men who talk about sexually abusing children.  Hammond claimed he was merely engaged in sexual fantasy and would not have gone through the sexual activity. 

The jury rejected this defense and found Hammond guilty after approximately 3 hours of deliberation.