The Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office posted an announcement: A 53-year-old man who raped a 15-year-old will serve 30 years in prison.
Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Amy Ashworth announces the successful prosecution of Phillip Michael Brown, arising from the September 2023 rape of a fifteen-year-old resident of Prince William County. On September 23, 2024, a Prince William County Jury found Phillip Michael Brown guilty of one count of aggravated sexual battery and one count of rape through mental incapacity or physical helplessness. On February 13, 2025, Mr. Brown was sentenced by the Honorable Kimberly Irving, Judge of the Prince William County Circuit Court, to 70 years in prison with 40 years suspended, resulting in an active sentence of 30 years in prison to serve and an indefinite period of supervised probation. The case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Elena Ventura and Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Meagan Anglin.Commonwealth of Virginia v. Phillip Michael BrownOn September 1, 2023, at approximately 1:00 p.m., the Prince William County Police Department began investigating the report of an intoxicated fifteen-year-old missing juvenile. At approximately 3:00 p, m., the juvenile was located in the bathroom at the train station in Manassas City, Virginia, in an incoherent state. Mr. Brown was located later that afternoon, through GPS tracking of the juvenile’s cell phone, and was in possession of the cell phone. Mr. Brown initially told law enforcement he had located the juvenile on the fourth floor of the parking garage adjacent to the train station, clearly intoxicated, and asking for assistance. Further investigation by the Manassas City Police Department revealed that the juvenile had been sexually assaulted in the parking garage by Mr. Brown. When confronted with the video footage, Mr. Brown admitted to picking the fifteen-year-old up near Nokesville Road in Prince William County, Virginia, before driving her to the parking garage in downtown Manassas City, Virginia, but denied assaulting her. Additional DNA evidence presented at trial supported the juvenile’s report of sexual assault by Mr. Brown.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Amy Ashworth offered the following comment: “This was such a troubling case and every parent’s nightmare. We are grateful for the citizens that reported the intoxicated juvenile to the police which started the search for her and the outstanding police work that allowed us to bring Mr. Brown to justice for his horrific actions.”The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney would like to recognize Annalise Tempest, Case Manager of the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Victim/Witness Program, for the vital assistance she provided the victim and her family throughout the prosecution of this matter. We also want to recognize the hard work of the Manassas City Police Department and Prince William County Police Department detectives and officers who worked on this case, specifically Detectives Cooper Knight and Timothy Urey and Officer Matthew Laclair with the Manassas City Police Department.
