{"id":13650,"date":"2012-07-27T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2012-07-27T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:11:27","slug":"prosecutors-winlock-man-ids-through-dna-charged-in-2007-campground-rape-of-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13650","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors: Winlock man ID’d through DNA charged in 2007 campground rape of child"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHEHALIS – A judge this afternoon ordered a 24-year-old Winlock man held on $500,000 bail following his arrest for a sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl in a Mossyrock-area campground almost five years ago.<\/p>\n

Reginald L. Juntunen was identified only late last month as a suspect through DNA, according to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n

He was in Lewis County Superior Court yesterday on an unrelated matter when he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n

Temporary defense attorney Bob Schroeter told the judge Juntunen is a graduate of Winlock High School and a life-long resident of the South Lewis County town.<\/p>\n

Charging documents in the case allege the child was anally raped by a dark-skinned male wearing a hoodie and a stocking cap who forced her into the public restroom.<\/p>\n

The girl, who is now 12, said she rode her bicycle to the nearby bathroom when she saw the man.<\/p>\n

She said he told her he had a knife and to stop screaming, and he left in a yellowish car, according to the documents.<\/p>\n

Deputies at the time collected a tissue the girl had wiped herself off with when she returned to the family’s motor home, the documents state.<\/p>\n

On July 2, the sheriff’s office received a report from the\u00a0\u00a0 Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory declaring a match with Juntunen.<\/p>\n

Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Joely O’Rourke said his DNA would have been entered into the system from a previous felony.<\/p>\n

Juntunen told detectives yesterday he’d been to the park camping with his family when he was nine years old and two years ago fishing with a friend, but not in 2007 when he was 19 years old.<\/p>\n

“When asked by Detective Callas if he could explain how his DNA was recovered from semen found on a female child, Juntunen’s eyes got very large, he appeared to be in shock, and he simply said ‘no’,” charging documents state.<\/p>\n

O’Rourke said she has not yet spoken with the victim, and doesn’t know where she is from.<\/p>\n

Juntunen is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree rape of a child and\u00a0 first-degree kidnapping with sexual motivation. Each offense carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.<\/p>\n

The Winlock man is currently in Lewis County Drug Court, having entered in connection with a case in which he allegedly sold jewelry to a Centralia boutique that had been stolen in a February burglary in Winlock.<\/p>\n

Yesterday he was in court to plead not guilty to burglary and theft related to a case in which he and another individual allegedly were involved in a May break-in at another Winlock residence and a stolen banjo and guitar were sold to a pawn shop.<\/p>\n

He has a 2008 drug conviction.<\/p>\n

Juntunen is represented by Chehalis attorney Chris Baum.<\/p>\n

He will return to court next Thursday morning to make his plea in this new case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS – A judge this afternoon ordered a 24-year-old Winlock man held on $500,000 bail following his arrest for a sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl in a Mossyrock-area campground almost five years ago. Reginald L. Juntunen was identified only late last month as a suspect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-13650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13653,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}