Corrections officer charged with child rape

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — A Clallam Bay Corrections Center officer has been charged with first-degree child rape.

Superior Court Judge Lauren Erickson set bail of $50,000 this week for 32-year-old Alexis R. Bustillos Osuna of Port Angeles, the Peninsula Daily News reported.

Harry Gasnick of Clallam Public Defender, representing Osuna, asked that Osuna be released on his own recognizance, saying the nature of the offense and circumstances of the allegations are of an opportunistic nature, not a predatory nature. Osuna remained in jail as of Thursday.

The assault allegedly occurred between Nov. 2-6, when the girl’s mother was at work, according to the probable cause statement written by Port Angeles Police Detective Trevor Dropp.

The mother contacted police after her daughter said Osuna had touched her. The girl told Port Angeles Police Officer J.J. Smith that Osuna assaulted her while she was sleeping at her home, according to the probable cause statement.

Dropp obtained a court order to record a conversation between the girl’s mother and Osuna during which Osuna admitted to assaulting the girl and telling her not to say anything, Dropp said.

Osuna, a corrections officer at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center, was hired March 23, Department of Corrections spokesman Jeremy Barclay said. “Mr. Bustillos Osuna will be placed on home assignment, pending investigation,” Barclay said.