By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A former Chehalis man who admitted he took advantage of a 13-year-old girl at a Centralia party when he was 19 years old was handed down a prison term today of a little less than three and half years.
Tyler M. McKee, 22, was brought to Lewis County from Las Vegas at the end of July, charged in Lewis County Superior Court with second-degree rape of a child.
The girl reported to Centralia police in 2012 she was raped, but detectives didn’t get a break in the case until last year. She told police she was so drunk she could not walk and remembered both “Tyler” and “Jeff” being on top of her, one after the other.
Lewis County prosecutors struck a deal with McKee in which he pleaded guilty last month to two counts of second-degree child molestation, while the rape charge was dropped.
McKee is represented by Centralia lawyer J.P. Enbody.
He went before Judge James Lawler today who gave him a 41-month sentence.
Another Chehalis resident, Geffrey A. Duncan, 22, was arrested in September and charged in the same case.
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For background, read “Suspect in rape of girl at 2012 Centralia party arrested in Vegas” from Monday August 1, 2016, here [1]