A convicted child molester sentenced this week to life in prison was charged Friday with four additional sex crimes involving a young girl.
Jamie Lloyd Wallin, 32, of Everett on Wednesday was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for joining a female accomplice in August 2006 to have sex in front of three girls, ages 7, 9 and 11.
The children were molested and also photographed nude.
The new charges involve a girl who in April told police that Wallin raped, molested and took nude photographs of her starting in 2002 when she was 9. She said the abuse continued until she was 11, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Ed Stemler said in court papers.
Stemler charged Wallin with two counts each of first-degree child rape and first-degree child molestation,
If convicted of any of the charges, Wallin again would face a mandatory life sentence under state persistent offender law.
“The defendant is a prolific pedophile who will prey upon young girls whenever he is given the opportunity,” Stemler said. “The state will do everything in its power to make sure he never again is released from prison and no more children are victimized by him.”
Wallin was convicted of child molestation in 1994 and served more than four years in prison after failing in a treatment program designed to help him curb deviant urges.
In 2003, he was again charged with child molestation after state corrections officials searched his laptop computer and discovered “hundreds, if not thousands” of photographs of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
A judge in that case sentenced him to life without parole as a persistent offender, but the state Court of Appeals overturned the conviction and dismissed the case. The Appeals Court ruled the search of Wallin’s computer was improper because a judge in error sentenced him to too long a period of state supervision, according to court papers.
Within nine months of his release from prison, Wallin molested the three girls in the August 2006 case, Stemler said.
The child at the center of the new charges is now 14. Images of her abuse found on Wallin’s computer sent him to prison in the 2003 case, according to court papers.
Detectives in April investigated a report that the girl had been engaging in sex with a 23-year-old man. While telling a child interview specialist about that case, the girl also talked about the alleged 2003 abuse by Wallin, Stemler said.
It was the first time the girl had acknowledged something happened with Wallin, according to court papers.
The girl “said she had not told anyone about the defendant having sex with her because she was too afraid” and was questioned by police in 2003 before having a chance to talk with her mother about what had happened, Stemler said.
Authorities also have interviewed a man who said he Wallin met in prison. The man claimed Wallin told him about molesting the girl and two other children before going to prison in 2003, Stemler said.
Although images from Wallin’s computer can’t be used in the new prosecution, the girl’s April disclosures and the statements from the witness from prison can, Stemler said.
The prosecutor asked that Wallin await trial on the new charges at his new home: prison.
Reporter Scott North: 425-339-3431 or north@heraldnet.com.
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