A Thurston County man convicted in Lewis County of sexually assaulting a juvenile girl repeatedly between May 2019 and November 2023 was sentenced Wednesday to 136 months, or just over 11 years, in prison.
The man, identified as David Allen Roth, 34, of Olympia, pleaded guilty to one count each of second-degree rape of a child and sexual exploitation of a minor on Feb. 21.
Roth was accused of sexually assaulting the juvenile victim multiple times in Centralia and the Napavine areas between May 2019 and November 2023. He was also accused of asking her to take naked photos of herself and upload them to a file he had access to.
The victim reportedly disclosed the abuse to staff at W.F. West High School in Chehalis on Nov. 11, 2023. The Chehalis Police Department initially responded, but referred the case to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office once investigators learned the abuse did not take place within Chehalis city limits, according to court documents.
When the abuse first began in 2019, Roth told the victim “she was not allowed to tell anyone because he would go to jail or kill himself,” according to court documents.
In addition to jail time, Roth is required to register as a sex offender and serve 36 months on probation. He is also prohibited from having any contact with minors other than his biological children, and that contact must be supervised by another adult who knows of Roth’s conviction in this case.
A lifetime no-contact order protecting the victim is in place.
