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A former New York City Police Department detective and his companion were sentenced to three and a half years on Monday after a plea deal left them facing charges of attempted kidnapping in connection to the prostitution of a 13-year-old Brooklyn girl.

Wayne Taylor, 35, and Zelika Brown, 29, of Jamaica, pled guilty last month to second-degree attempted kidnapping after initially contesting the charges.

The Queens couple was initially charged with second-degree kidnapping, second- and third-degree promoting prostitution, third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child upon their arrest.

Taylor’s attorney insists his client was with just the wrong people at the wrong time.

“It’s reasonable to conclude that Detective Taylor exercised poor judgment in terms of the company he chose to keep outside of his employment with the New York City Police Department,” Stephen Drummond, Taylor’s attorney, said.

Drummond said that while he believed his client’s individual conduct was not a crime, that the actions of some of Taylor’s associations could be attributed to him under the law.

“It was my recommendation that he enter a plea of guilty to the charges of attempted kidnapping,” Drummond said of the plea deal, which resulted in the more serious charges being dropped.

The 13-year-old girl ran away from home earlier this year, according to prosecutors, and met someone who offered to get her into the business of dancing for money at parties. Soon after, the girl was introduced to Brown and Taylor, who began using the girl as a prostitute, prosecutors said.

The 14-year veteran of the NYPD Housing Bureau resigned before pleading guilty to the charges.

Brown and Taylor were arrested in January after the girl fled their Jamaica home and contacted police. The girl has since been returned to her family.