By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Centralia police took a report yesterday morning a Centralia woman was raped.
An officer responded about 9:15 a.m. yesterday to the 1200 block of Alder Street to talk to the victim, according to a police spokesperson.
Officers are investigating and releasing very little information.
Where it occurred, when it occurred and what the circumstances were are still unclear, according to police spokesperson Officer John Panco.
“We don’t know if it was a stranger or a known person,” he said. “The lady was upset. We got as much information as we could and that’s something we can’t verify.”
The case, according to police, is being investigated as a first-degree rape, meaning serious physical injury, threat with a deadly weapon, involving kidnapping or where the perpetrator criminally enters a building to assault the victim.
The police department describes it in a brief summary as a possible sexual assault.
Panco said there was some delay in the woman calling police. He did not know the woman’s condition.
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