Father Charged With Incest, Rape Man Accused Of Having Sex With 37-Year-Old Daughter

A 58-year-old Hunters, Wash., man has been charged with incest and rape of his 37-year-old daughter.

The defendant, Dennis W. Williamson, says he did not commit second-degree incest or third-degree rape. He also denies a Stevens County sheriff’s detective’s report that he admitted having sex with his daughter.

The daughter also claims details of the detective’s report are inaccurate.

Court documents says both parties told a sheriff’s detective they had been in the habit of massaging each other’s bad backs.

The detective’s report indicated Williamson came to his daughter’s home about 10 a.m. on April 14, 1994, while she still was in her pajamas. She said she told him she didn’t want a massage then, but he lifted her pajamas and gave her one anyway.

The woman said she told her father she felt uncomfortable when he touched her private parts, and wanted to know whether the contact was sexually motivated.

He assured her it wasn’t and continued to touch her, Detective Julie Melby quoted the woman as saying.

Melby said the woman told her she asked her father to stop, but he told her he “had to get some pleasure out of this, too,” and proceeded to have intercourse with her. Melby’s report indicates the victim offered no physical resistance.

Melby said Williamson told much the same story.

Williamson initially was charged only with incest, prompting publicly paid defense attorney Dennis Scott to question why the woman wasn’t charged too.

Stevens County Superior Court Judge Fred Stewart last week gave Scott permission to explore the victim’s history of treatment for psychiatric problems.

Scott said the woman apparently had “many, many” psychiatric hospitalizations even before the alleged rape.

He contends she may have made up the allegations against her father to divert attention from a child-custody dispute with an ex-husband that was occurring at the same time.

Special prosecutor Tony Koures said the woman says she “froze” when her father initiated sexual contact with her last year because he had molested her as a child. He said she denies telling Melby she and her father had been in the habit of massaging one another.

Koures said the woman told him her only psychiatric treatment before the alleged rape was for post-partum depression after giving birth.

Scott said his information is that, as a child, the woman did not live in the same household as her father. He said he knows of no documentation that her father abused her as a child.

At the time of the alleged rape, the woman and her father were living in separate homes on the same rural property near Hunters.

Scott and Koures, who is a deputy Pend Oreille County prosecutor, were appointed to prevent a conflict when the Stevens County prosecutor’s office hired the attorney who had been appointed to defend Williamson.

, DataTimes