MOUNT VERNON — An Anacortes man was released from Skagit County Jail on Thursday after his arraignment on child rape charges involving a 15-year-old girl he met while volunteering at Burlington-Edison High School.
Michael Coleman, 36, pleaded not guilty to four counts of third-degree child rape.
He reportedly met the girl while he was a volunteer speaker and tutor in a class at the school in 2010.
“He used and abused his position with the school,” deputy prosecutor Rosemary Kaholokula said at the arraignment Thursday. “He put himself in a position to be in contact with underage girls.”
Coleman was already a registered Level 1 sex offender when the offenses are alleged to have occurred. He was convicted in 2004 in Oregon of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
