KING5.com Staff
TACOMA, Wash. – A retired Tacoma police officer was sentenced Friday to nearly 20 years in prison for a litany of child sex crimes.
Lee William Giles Jr., 61, received 19 years, 8 months after pleading guilty late last year to first- and second-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation and third-degree assault.
His girlfriend, Maureen Wear, pleaded guilty to the same charges. She will be sentenced at a later date.
From the very beginning, the allegations against Giles were stunning. Prosecutors say Giles repeatedly raped his own girlfriend's young son over a period of years, videotaped the crimes, and that Wear – the victim's own mother – was involved in the attacks.
Court papers indicated that other female family members were also victimized. It was Mounting, gut-wrenching evidence that would doom either defendant during a trial.
Giles faced 17 different counts altogether, but because of the plea deal, that was knocked down to four counts.
Since Giles was a police officer, he most likely will not serve his prison time in a Washington state prison, but rather be sent out of state.
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