Tacoma Man, Woman Guilty of Child Rape

(Tacoma, Washington) Back in 2006, retired police officer Lee William Giles Jr. and his girlfriend, Maureen Elizabeth "Mo" Wear, were charged with multiple counts of child rape for sexually abusing three children, one a relative, over a period of years. The abuse was described as systematic.

 
Lee William Giles Jr. & Maureen Elizabeth Wear
Yesterday, Giles and Wear each pleaded guilty to child rape, child molestation and assault of a child.

Lee William Giles Jr., 62, and Maureen Elizabeth Wear, 47, face more than 19 years in prison under the pleas they entered before Pierce County Superior Court Judge Bryan E. Chushcoff.

Each pleaded guilty to first-degree child rape, second-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation and third-degree assault of a child. Giles is scheduled for sentencing Jan. 4 and Wear a week earlier.

Under their plea agreements, neither may be released from prison until a sentencing review board determines that he or she is no longer a threat to society, Deputy Prosecutor John M. Sheeran said.

Giles, who frequently visited schools and appeared on television and radio during a 30-year police career that ended in 2000, was arrested in August 2006 after a young relative of Wear told authorities the officer had raped and molested him for years.

Detectives also wrote in court documents that they found videotapes showing Giles and Wear raping and molesting the boy, described as developmentally disabled, and molesting two girls related to Giles. The three ranged in age from 3 to 16 at the time of the abuse, according to the court filings.

Sick.


[Update 01/28/08]

Both Giles and Wear were sentenced to 20 years in prison.