Lorelei Corpuz Has Some Charges Dropped
I previously wrote about Lorelei Corpuz here. She is the 30-year-old woman who conned her way into a family by posing as a teenage boy just so she could molest an underage girl.
She has had some charges dropped already at a plea hearing, where she pleaded not guilty to the remaining charge of third degree child molestation. Two other counts of third degree rape were dropped. She is staying in jail until her trial on June 1.
From the HeraldNet here:
An Everett woman who allegedly lived as a teenage boy and molested an underage girl pleaded not guilty Friday. Lorelei J. Corpuz, 30, entered the plea during a brief afternoon hearing in Snohomish County Superior Court.
A few hours earlier, prosecutors charged Corpuz with one count of third-degree child molestation, a felony. In Corpuz posed as the boyfriend of a teenage Everett girl and adopted the identity Mark Villanueva, 17.
Corpuz met the girl in September 2005 at an area mall and lived with the teen’s family off and on through April.
The alleged illegal sexual contact came to light after a traffic stop in Everett led to Corpuz’s arrest on a warrant. The Everett girl, who is 16 (not 14, as originally reported by police), was in the car. The girl’s parents, immigrants from Vietnam who speak little English, have said they had no idea the person they knew as “Mark” was actually a 30-year-old woman.
Corpuz denied improper sex. The girl told police there was sexual touching that started when she was 15.
In court Friday, Corpuz identified herself by her given name. She did not contest the $150,000 bail that was previously set in her case. She remained behind bars at the county jail in Everett.
Corpuz is being investigated for numerous thefts and frauds in Snohomish County, as well as for another relationship involving a young girl elsewhere. Kitsap County officials have previously acknowledged they’ve opened an investigation there in which Corpuz, again posing as a male, was charged with fourth-degree domestic assault after a 16-year-old girl told police her boyfriend had bit and punched her.
“The defendant had assumed a fictitious identity of a 17-year- old, even opening a bank account under a fictitious name, and writing bad checks on that account,” Roe said in court documents. “The financial crimes are being investigated separately, and charges for those may follow.”
It doesn’t look like this predator will really spend much hard time behind bars, and its too bad. In fact, it is likely that she will do more time for the bad checks than for duping a family and molesting two kids.
