PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man accused of child rape involving a 2-year-old has been charged with 10 more counts of possession of child pornography in Clallam County Superior Court.
Dwayne A. Marcum, 39, was charged Friday with six additional counts of first-degree and four counts of second-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
These 10 charges were added to one count each of first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor and first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicitly conduct, all of which Marcum was charged with in July.
At Marcum’s status hearing Friday, Clallam County Superior Court Judge George Wood set Marcum’s jury trial for Jan. 28.
Marcum is still in the Clallam County jail on $750,000 bond.
The charges stem from images and video found on a flash drive and digital camera authorities said belong to Marcum.
Woods discovery
Port Angeles police had found the camera and computer flash drive memory chip in a stand of trees in west Port Angeles, according to the probable-cause statement filed in the case.
At Friday’s hearing, County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ann Lundwall said she met with Port Angeles police earlier in the week and reviewed a number of digital images recovered from the flash drive after it had been returned from the forensic computer lab.
The additional 10 charges were based on her review of those images, she said.
Port Angeles police arrested Marcum at his home in the 2200 block of West 16th Street on July 23 on a warrant separate from the child rape and child pornography charges, according to court documents.
In an interview at the Port Angeles police station the day of the arrest, officers told Marcum that his name had been associated with the flash drive and digital camera.
Marcum told police the camera looked like one he owned that had gone missing and that he had possessed the flash drive after initially denying he had even seen it before, according to the probable-cause statement.
Marcum told the officers that the flash drive contained “child pornography” but that someone had mailed it to him in an attempt to blackmail him, according to court documents.
As the interview went on, Marcum eventually told the officers the flash drive contained two pictures of him “molesting a child,” court documents said, but that he had been diagnosed as “having a split personality” and did not remember doing the things depicted in the pictures.
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