A person recounted to a Clark County Superior Courtroom jury Tuesday the sexual contact he stated he had when he was 16 years outdated together with his former expertise coach at Dawn Youth Companies’ now-closed Brush Prairie facility.
The now-20-year-old was the primary witness to testify in Alicia Kay Stowe’s trial for first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. The trial started Monday afternoon with jury choice.
Throughout his testimony, the person stated he had been to Dawn twice as a teen for rehabilitation for his methamphetamine and marijuana use. He stated Stowe, now 36, labored with him throughout each stays.
The Columbian will not be figuring out the person because of the nature of the prison case and the truth that he was a minor on the time.
Throughout opening statements, Deputy Prosecutor Melinda McMahon stated throughout the teen’s first keep at Dawn, his relationship with Stowe was skilled and protecting. However, she stated, throughout his second keep, in March 2021, the connection modified to unprofessional and sexual.
“Kay violated her position of authority to have sexual intercourse with (the accuser),” McMahon stated.
Stowe’s accuser testified that he started flirting along with her throughout his second keep on the facility. He additionally started writing her letters, a number of of which he learn to the jury Tuesday, through which he professed his love for her and refuted the concept she was benefiting from him. In a single letter he made references to his sexual wishes.
Across the time he was set to be launched from his second keep, he had sexual contact with Stowe, he testified, in one of many facility’s restrooms, the place he knew there have been no cameras.
Throughout his opening assertion, protection legal professional Jon McMullen confirmed the jury a diagram of the wing within the Dawn facility the place Stowe’s accuser stated the sexual contact occurred. The diagram indicated the place safety cameras have been situated, together with close to the entrances to the wing and outdoors of the restrooms. McMullen stated Stowe was educated on the situation of the cameras, and he or she beforehand held a place there the place she monitored the cameras.
“Any suggestion that this was some sort of hideaway spot … is really kind of absurd,” McMullen stated.
McMullen pressed the person about his story altering.
When police initially contacted him as a teen, he denied having any sexual contact with Stowe. He stated Tuesday he was scared that he’d executed one thing mistaken, and he felt protecting of Stowe due to his romantic emotions for her.
McMullen stated Stowe’s story has not modified, and he or she has maintained her innocence because the starting of the case.
After a while, the person’s family and friends helped him perceive that Stowe’s sexual contact was mistaken, he testified. He then instructed regulation enforcement in regards to the sexual contact with Stowe within the restroom, he stated, together with subsequent incidents at inns in Lacey after he was launched from Dawn.
McMullen questioned the person’s reminiscence and whether or not his drug use may have affected it.
The trial is scheduled to final a lot of the week.
