FORKS — Brett Lee Card, 23, was arrested this week after being charged with two counts of second-degree rape of a child.
A 13-year-old Forks girl told city police that she and Card did drugs together and had sex about six times in two abandoned houses last December, court papers said.
She was 12 at the time.
Card, also of Forks, was arrested on a warrant Monday. He will be arraigned in Clallam County Superior Court at 1:30 p.m. Friday.
The victim told police she and Card started dating last November after they met at Tillicum Park.
“She said he asked her if she wanted to snort a line of methamphetamine and she agreed, saying she was already doing pills at the time,” Officer Julie Goode wrote in the incident report.
“She said after that they started hanging out and doing drugs together. She explained how they would break into abandoned houses to do drugs and have sex.”
The girl told investigators that she and Card had had encounters at vacant houses at 355 Bogachiel Way and 530 Calawah Way. The last encounter occurred on New Year’s Day.
Police interviewed the girl after being called to investigate a possible sex offense May 14, court papers said.
The girl told police in a July interview that she had inadvertently left a condom and a pair of underwear at the house at 530 Calawah Way because she and Card were high, court papers said.
After the July interview, police on a search warrant collected two condoms, the underwear and other items from a chair inside the foreclosed house and sent the condoms to a State Patrol crime lab for analysis.
The condoms were found to contain the DNA of both Card and the girl, court papers said.
A warrant was issued for Card’s arrest Oct. 3. He was formally charged with two counts of second-degree rape of a child on the same day.
A pre-trial sexual assault protection order filed Tuesday would prevent Card from having contact with the girl should he post his $50,000 bail.
Clallam County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brian King, who patrols the West End, said authorities there have had a “lot of contacts” with Card over the years.
“He’s got a long history,” King said.
“He’s well-known in the community.”
Card was charged in January with second-degree burglary, first-degree trafficking in stolen property and third-degree theft for allegedly breaking into a Forks salon Dec. 5 and taking items he intended to sell.
Those charges were dismissed in April.
Forks Police Administrator Rick Bart on Wednesday declined to comment on the child rape investigation, which is still ongoing.
“It’s too sensitive,” Bart said.
“She’s a juvenile.”
Second-degree rape of a child is a Class A felony punishable by a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $50,000 fine.
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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5072, or at rollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.
