Edwardo E. Barro-Celerino waits to be taken back down to the jail following his arraignment in Lewis County Superior Court.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A 12-year-old girl who found a stranger in her Centralia bedroom told him she had to use the bathroom to get away from him, and then went and got an adult in another part of the home, according to court papers.
The girl, who is identified only by her initials, told deputies the man put his hand up her shirt attempting to pull it up and also tried to put his hand down her pants, according to charging documents from the Sunday night incident on the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue.
When the adult confronted the stranger who appeared intoxicated, and asked him what he was doing, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, he answered: “Trying to get some,” and then left. The sheriff’s office thinks he came in through an unlocked back door.
The suspect, Edwardo E. Barro-Celerino, 22, lives nearby in the same neighborhood. Wet footprints led responding law enforcement officers to a sliding door at his home, where he was found passed out in a bedroom, according to authorities.
Barro-Celerino pleaded not guilty today in Lewis County Superior Court to attempted child molestation in the second degree and first-degree burglary.
He sat quietly beside a Spanish language interpreter in the Chehalis courtroom. His family hired defense attorney Robert Brungardt to represent him.
Barro-Celerino has no prior felonies, has lived in the area for two to three years, earning about $1,000 a month working for the Roof Doctor, a judge was told when he was brought into court earlier this week.
While the sheriff’s office booked Barro-Celerino on Sunday for attempted rape of a child, prosecutors instead charged him with attempted child molestation in the second degree.
Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher said today the facts of the case better fit that charge.
It’s a class C felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Charging documents also note Barro-Celerino was armed with a deadly weapon, but the narrative in the affidavit of probable cause makes no mention of a weapon being used or displayed.
He is being held in the Lewis County Jail on $75,000 bail. A hold has been placed on him by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, presumably because the federal agency wants him for some issue, according to his previous temporary attorney.
The sheriff’s office initially reported the suspect’s name as Eduardo E. Barro-Cellesino. Sheriff’s spokesperson Chief Criminal Deputy Brown said the name on charging documents is listed in their database as an “also known as”.
Brown also said the suspect was found in a neighbor’s house, uninvited, but where he was known. Charging documents however show the mobile home space number where he was found as his residence.
“There were language barriers,” Brown said.
A trial date is set for the week of Jan. 7.
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For background, read “News brief: Centralia girl finds stranger in her bedroom, man arrested” from Tuesday November 13, 2012, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
All You People That Have Been Judging This Guy! All You Fools Dont Know Nothiing! Dont Know Who He Is Or Whats The Real Story Behind Everything! Ever Thought, That What Their Saying Never Happened? You People Assume What Happened! And Sometimes Its Not Even True! All You People Dont have The Right To Judge No One On This Whole Planet! Because All You Dont Know Nothing About This Guy! You All Assume What You Been Told But All You Dont Know What Really Happened! So Stop Judging Someone Else! All You Stupid People Do Is Read And Judge Other People! You Have No Right On Judging Other! Because You Dont Even Know Who They Are! Or Anything! Because You Dont Know Them!! Because All You People Are Nothing! Only God Has The Right To Judge Human! But All You Human Being That Judge Other People Without Knowing Who There Are! Are Trash!
Someone is gonna be getting burritos shoved in his ass! 15 will get you 20 to life!
Let’s hope this little girl is okay psychologically.
WPWW!!!
RACIST……..Lol…Not today .. The person who throws that out all the time,To me is more racist than anyone else.
Im tired of being called a racist because of the color of my skin!
Im far from that but what I am is, American!
Which is all colors.ALL COLORS LEGAL COLORS!
I do know that illegals oops I mean most are very un-american, Also LaRaza means the Race and that to me is more racist for someone who hops over the fence and demands to be treated like us when the are illegal and have no voice here!
Like that lovely man who wanted to get him some or the guy who stabbed another human instead of reporting him, all because he didnt want to look like a KID in front of the women.
Yes the USA was built by immigrants, But Wake Up!! We don’t need Immigrants anymore when we don’t have enough jobs for Americans!
When the time comes then Legal Immigrants is fine by me .They will be Documented!!!
Your repeated racist posts make Centralians look bad.
I keep wondering why the Chronicle reports him as being a “Centralian”.
It doesn’t look to me like he was born in Centralia, or Washington, or the U.S. for that matter.
Saying that this p.o.s. is a “Centralian” makes the rest of the community look bad. And that is a very difficult thing to do sometimes.
earning about $1,000 a month working for the Roof DoctorOr that he hasnt been caught…Until Now..He is undoumented Do you know what crimes he may have done in his country,No!
His family hired defense attorney Robert Brungardt to represent him.>
And wow so good that somebody has money to hire a Brungardt but are they also going to foot the bill on the interpreter or is that coming out of our pockets,
Trying to get some> So he said that to the little girls family..Do they speak spanish or is this one he speak no english when busted…Hope This gets posted…..
This guy is lucky he made it out of that house still breathing. I know a lot of parents that would not have given him that opportunity…myself included.
ONce again OLJ , I totally agree. He is real lucky he did not wander in my neck of the woods , my 12 year old Grandaughter would have used the bathroom then grabbed her gun , she’s a better shot then me.
^^ Couldn’t agree more, OLJ.
Human filth needs to have his privates removed so that he can’t hurt any little girls or procreate.
Scum of the Earth.