Teen Details Coerced Sex Senate Bill Targets Dance Clubs, Videos

A young alleged victim of former Davenport school counselor Charles Jungblom took center stage Tuesday at a Senate hearing looking for ways to crack down on nude dance clubs, prostitution and X-rated movie producers who exploit children.

Alicia Hutsell, now 19, tearfully told lawmakers of being coerced into increasingly explicit sex videos by Jungblom when she was 12.

Hutsell’s attorney, Richard Eymann of Spokane, said Sen. Darlene Fairley’s bill would send a clear message to amateur and professional pornographers that it could be very costly to coerce someone into making explicit videos.

Fairley, D-Lake Forest Park, one of the Legislature’s most liberal members, touted a package of four bills aimed at limiting the sex industry.

Jungblom was arrested as he drove away from the Davenport post office on Jan. 20, 1994, after picking up a sexually-explicit video made a year earlier by a former student.

Five months later, Jungblom pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child. He is serving a 57-month prison sentence. Jungblom confessed to having high school girls film sexually explicit videos.

Eymann said he intends to file a lawsuit against the Davenport School District on behalf of Hutsell. Eymann represents Heather Giles in a pending lawsuit against the district. Giles, now 19, claims officials didn’t protect her from Jungblom, who repeatedly raped her when she was a student.

The bills discussed Tuesday would place major restrictions on sex clubs, including imposing an 8-foot “no contact” zone between nude and semi-nude dancers and their patrons. The other bills would increase penalties on prostitutes and their clients and pimps, give judges more power to ban prostitutes from specified areas, and crack down on pornographers who coerce people into sexually explicit videos.

Fairley said she’s no prude and that some acts are consensual. But she said she wants to end exploitation of women, particularly minors, and wants to ensure that communities have more control over pornography and prostitution laws.

At Fairley’s request, James Covey of the King County police showed a videotape taken inside a nude dance club. A buxom, nearly naked woman was performing a “couch” dance for $30, rubbing her body up and down a man’s body.

Lawmakers sat in awkward silence in the darkened room. After about two minutes, Fairley asked Covey to stop the video.

“We get the gist,” deadpanned Sen. Adam Smith, D-Kent, chairman of the Senate Law and Justice Committee.

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