By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – An 18-year-old woman went before a judge today in Lewis County Superior Court accused of lying when she reported to a deputy that a 16-year-old boy tried to rape her.
Sierah L. Daniels is charged with malicious prosecution, a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Jessica Blye told the judge Daniels has no prior criminal history and recommended she be allowed release pending trial on a $5,000 unsecured bond. Judge Joely O’Rourke agreed.
Daniels had been summonsed to appear, after the charge was filed at the end of December.
Charging documents describe a Lewis County Sheriff’s Office deputy being dispatched on Dec. 2 for an attempted rape in Mineral and meeting Daniels at the Morton Police Department.
She reportedly told the deputy the boy, now 17, attempted to have sex with her when he showed up to her trailer in Mineral, first asking her and when she said no, forcing her down on the bed.
She said he began to force her knees apart when her husband’s mother walked in, Deputy Prosecutor Jeffrey Schaap wrote in the affidavit regarding probable cause.
However, the deputy then interviewed the boy who said they’d made a plan to meet at her trailer at 6 o’clock before school, according to Schaap, and after he arrived they hugged and her answer to his question was, “I don’t know.”
He reportedly said he was rubbing her thigh when the mother-in-law walked in and he would take a polygraph to prove he did nothing wrong, according to Schaap.
Schaap wrote that when the sheriff’s deputy re-contacted Daniels, she admitted she lied and made up the story to avoid a rift in her marriage.
Daniels was accompanied to court this afternoon by her husband. She was given a court-appointed lawyer and told to return for her arraignment on Jan. 26.