Ex-Student: Porn Videos Led To Rape ‘I Was Scared To Death Of Him,’ Woman Testifies

Heather Giles thought her high school guidance counselor wanted to help her launch a career in fashion modeling.

Instead Charles Jungblom lured her into a secretive world of pornography, raped her repeatedly, and threatened to show classmates a videotape of her stripping if she turned him in, she tearfully told a U.S. District Court jury Friday in Spokane.

Giles, now 22, and her parents are suing the Davenport School District, claiming administrators didn’t protect her from Jungblom during her three years at Davenport High.

In her first public testimony, Giles painted a lewd and abusive picture of her relationship with Jungblom, starting with a routine meeting and ending with the counselor planning to rape her on video.

“I was scared to death of him,” Giles said. “He was somebody I trusted and I didn’t believe this could ever happen.”

Jungblom is already serving a five-year sentence after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a child in 1994. Police caught him picking up a pornographic video Giles mailed to him.

He wasn’t named in the civil suit, in which Giles and her parents are seeking unspecified damages from the school district.

Attorneys for the district say Giles wasn’t raped and hope to convince jurors she made sex videos for Jungblom strictly for money.

On Friday, an emotional Giles told her story to jurors, some of whom occasionally dabbed at their own teary eyes.

She met Jungblom after her family moved to Davenport from Bellevue, Wash., just before her sophomore year.

The balding grandfather gave her a modeling contract, explaining that he helped get girls into the business, Giles said.

Jungblom convinced her to make a “dance video” with a camera he passed to her in a paper bag, Giles said. Later, Jungblom invited her to his home to make another video - this time wearing a bikini - while a classmate played photographer, Giles said.

Jungblom then asked her to do a “strip video,” she said, with a script that told her specifically when to unzip zippers, unfasten buttons and touch her breasts.

When she protested, Jungblom became threatening, telling her he could have her grades lowered and keep her from going to college, Giles said.

He also told her if she resisted, the previous videos would show up in her father’s mail or in classmates’ lockers.

In 1992, Jungblom told her to attend a “High-5” meeting at his house. Giles was president of the school club, and Jungblom said he needed to give her guidelines for that role.

Instead, Giles said, Jungblom forced her to an upstairs bedroom and raped her.

“He told me I was enjoying this, that this is what I had wanted,” Giles said.

He raped her at least once a week for about a year, once in a school district van, she said. Jungblom frequently used the code “High-5 meeting” as a signal to go to his house.

He continually threatened to make the videos public if she told anyone, and told her no one would believe her anyway, Giles said.

Giles said Jungblom coerced her into making two more pornographic videos before making plans for what was to be her final video - a tape of Jungblom raping her at a Spokane motel a few days after her high school graduation.

Giles never showed up. Her mother later found suspicious correspondence from Jungblom in her daughter’s mail and talked to authorities, who launched an investigation.

Giles said she suffered great trauma and has trouble holding a steady job. She also said she didn’t have the emotional stamina to follow through with her dream to go to college.

Robert Moss, a Seattle economist, told jurors Giles stands to lose more than $1 million in wages during her lifetime because of the missed opportunity.

School district attorneys are scheduled to cross-examine Giles on Monday.

, DataTimes