PORT ANGELES — A 41-year-old convicted sex offender has been charged in Clallam County Superior Court with sexually assaulting a disabled man who at one time was reportedly the alleged victim’s roommate.
Jacob Donald Frederick of Port Angeles threatened to kill the 47-year-old alleged victim if he reported the assault, according to the probable cause statement, which listed Frederick’s address as transient.
Counts of second-degree rape-vulnerable victim, punishable by life imprisonment, and third-degree rape-vulnerable victim, punishable by up to five years, were filed Tuesday.
Frederick will be arraigned Dec. 17. He remained in the Clallam County jail Thursday on $10,000 bail.
The incidents allegedly occurred between Jan. 1 and Nov. 28, 2021.
Frederick pleaded guilty in Superior Court in 2010 to possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit acts. He received an 18-month suspended sentence under the Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative program. He was sentenced to 30 days in December 2018 for failing to register as a sex offender.
Frederick is a Level 2 sex offender, assessed as a moderate risk to reoffend.
The alleged victim, a client of Peninsula Behavioral Health, is physically disabled and is a dependent disabled adult diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, and has been hospitalized 152 times, according to probable cause statements.
The man also has physical disabilities, according to the report.
The alleged victim said the attacks occurred Nov. 28 after Frederick forced his way into his trailer and earlier in the year at a baseball field near the Clallam County fairgrounds, where Frederick had lived in a camper trailer, according to the report.
The man’s roommate reported Nov. 29 to 9-1-1 that the alleged victim had been raped by Frederick a few days earlier, according to a probable cause statement.
The man’s caseworker transported him to Olympic Medical Center for an evidence exam.
The roommate said Frederick was at the residence when she went to sleep the night of the alleged attack.
A neighbor also said the man told her Frederick had raped him, Sanchez said in the report.
“[The man] described wanting to scream but didn’t because he didn’t want Frederick to hurt [his roommate] who was still sleeping,” according to the report.
The man said he was afraid of Frederick, whom he said had a key to his residence and had threatened him if he told anyone what had happened.
The probable cause statement said Frederick had once been the man’s roommate.
Frederick was arrested Dec. 2.
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Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 55650, or at pgottlieb@peninsuladailynews.com.