Updated at 6:32 p.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 22-year-old man is jailed after he allegedly snuck into a Centralia home and then into a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom and groped her before she got away from him.
It happened about 11:10 p.m. Sunday on the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said the intruder put his hands down her shirt and pants, but she escaped into the living room to tell an adult.
The adult confronted the man who appeared intoxicated, and asked him what he was doing, Brown said. He answered: “Trying to get some,” according Brown.
The intruder left before deputies arrived. A suspect was subsequently located and arrested for attempted rape of a child and burglary.
Brown indicated the suspect, Eduardo E. Barro-Cellesino, was a stranger to the family and had entered through an unlocked back door.
Prosecutors this afternoon charged Barro-Cellesino instead with attempted child molestation in the second degree and burglary.
He was ordered held on $75,000 bail and will be arraigned on Thursday.