Ex-Station Manager Is Sentenced

Worker Charged in Prostitution Sting to Enter Diversion Program

A former Metro station manager, arrested after she allegedly offered to arrange sex for an undercover police officer, agreed yesterday to attend a court-approved diversion program for prostitutes.

Sharon Waters, 42, was fired as a manager of the Dupont Circle Station after she was caught last month in a Metro Transit Police sting. She appeared yesterday in D.C. Superior Court on a solicitation charge, saying little in a hearing before Judge Rafael Diaz.

Waters agreed to spend two days a week for the next four months in the Angels Project Power diversion program, a five-year-old counseling and intervention program for women arrested for solicitation. If she successfully completes the program, the solicitation charge will be dropped, according to her attorney, Nikolaos Kourtesis.

Waters, of Bowie, was arrested June 24 and accused of trying to arrange sexual trysts for money from inside the Metro station. A Metro custodian, Pamela D. Goins, 45, of Southwest Washington, also was arrested in the case. Goins is due in court tomorrow.

After yesterday's hearing, Waters -- a wife and mother of three -- was embraced by family members. She said she was "falsely accused." She later added that the case "wasn't supposed to go this far. It's crazy."

Transit police launched the investigation in May after receiving a complaint about a station manager who was advertising trips to Brazil with "possible sexual undertones," according to charging papers. Police obtained a flier promoting the trips that named Waters as the travel representative.

A month later, an undercover transit officer posing as an out-of- town businessman approached Waters at the Dupont Circle Station, and the two talked about the Brazil trip, as well as other sexual possibilities in the Washington area, the charging papers said. The officer followed up with phone calls, in which Waters allegedly offered to introduce him to another Metro employee who would have sex with him for money.

In a June 11 meeting, Waters had the co-worker, Goins, paged over the Metro subway intercom, police said. Waters, Goins and the undercover officer then met in the Connecticut Avenue area of the Farragut North Station. During the meeting, Goins allegedly grabbed the officer's crotch and made several references to sexual acts she wanted to perform, saying she would meet the man for $200. No activity took place.

The undercover officer had several more phone conversations with Waters, including one in which she said a woman named Maria was also available, the charging papers said. Maria, whose full name was not revealed in the court papers, and another woman, referred to as Keisha, were going to be part of a threesome for sex that would cost $1,000, the charging papers said.

Waters had been a Metro employee for more than 20 years, and Goins, who also has been fired, worked for the agency for six years.