Woman uses cord to choke fellow sex offender, 76, on McNeil Island, charges say
A resident at the state’s facility for sexually violent predators pulled a cord around another resident’s neck and said she was trying to kill him, court records allege.
Prosecutors charged the 26-year-old with second-degree assault Friday in Pierce County Superior Court.
Charging papers give this account:
The attack happened Dec. 9 at the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island.
The woman was in a common room with an SCC employee and a 76-year-old resident who was in a wheelchair.
“Unknown to the monitor, the defendant had secured a thick coiled cord that is attached to a unit that raises and lowers the bed in the defendant’s room,” the declaration for determination of probable cause says.
The woman wrapped the cord around the other resident’s neck twice, pulled, and they fell backward.
“Staff immediately tried to intervene and had difficulty getting their hands under the cord that was wrapped tightly around,” the resident’s neck, the probable cause statement says.
He said he passed out during the assault and that his neck hurt.
The woman told staff she was trying to kill the other resident “and that she wanted to go back to the Department of Corrections,” the probable cause statement says. “The defendant stated that she intended on assaulting another resident, but he would not come out of his room.”
This story was originally published January 6, 2020 at 1:00 PM.
