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Another child sex charge A convicted felon is accused of photographing two teen girls and posting online ads advertising them for sale. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — For the second time in a month Snohomish County prosecutors have filed
charges against someone accused of selling underage girls for sex. The cases share numerous similarities: The girls were advertised on Backpage.com, met customers in local motel
rooms and were forced to turn over their money to older men. In the most recent case, a Snohomish County sheriff ’s detective found the girls after reviewing a runaway report for a 15-year-old. He learned that she and another girl, also 15, met a man who took pictures of them and posted ads on
Backpage. He would take calls from the men who answered the ads and give them the address and room number at the motel, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Matt Baldock wrote in court papers. See CHARGE, back page, this section
A moment never forgotten
Report explains
school funding
The analysis does not indicate if lawmakers think their work goes far enough to fulfill court requirements and thus avoid sanctioning.
Shawneri Guzman’s memory of a drowning inspires her message
PHOTOS BY DAN BATES / THE HERALD
Shawneri Guzman takes a photo of the near-empty life jacket holder at Twin Lakes in Marysville. Two weeks ago, she said, it was fully restocked. The vests, including all the children’s sizes, have already been stolen. Below: Thirty years ago, Guzman’s life changed when she witnessed a young boy drown about 20 feet out from this location on Twin Lakes.
By Rikki King Herald Writer
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SMOKEY POINT — To celebrate her 13th birthday, Shawneri Guzman wanted to hang out with her mom at the beach, just the two of them. Her family had a favorite swimming spot on the north lake at Twin Lakes park near Smokey Point. They’d go a few times a week in the summer. That day at the beach with her mom in 1985, a boy drowned in the north lake. Guzman and her mother watched as his body was pulled from the water. They never forgot.
Awash in cash And with plenty extra to light their cigars: Apple reported more than $10 billion in net income for the latest quarter Tuesday on sales of nearly $50 billion (Page A9). Although investors were disappointed because the report suggested the Apple Watch isn’t exactly flying off the shelves, that’s still a
Fast forward 30 years, with her 43rd birthday approaching next week, and Guzman is a mother herself. Her daughter, 18, is headed to college soon, and her son, 16, is about to get his driver’s license. In her job at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Guzman talks about drowning every day. She helps coordinate the life jacket loaner cabinets stocked around Snohomish County. She teaches classes on car seat safety and fall prevention but also warns parents about the dangers of drowning. Her message is as relevant as ever.
By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
BELLEVUE — State lawmakers Tuesday approved their report to the Supreme Court detailing what they did and what they must still do to adequately fund public schools by a 2018 deadline. The analysis explains how money was put in the new two-year state budget to cover classroom expenses and bus transportation costs as required by the court, leaving incomplete the difficult tasks of levy reform and statewide teacher compensation. What the 39-page analysis doesn’t say is whether lawmakers think their accomplishments are sufficient to get out from under a contempt order, and thus avoid getting sanctioned. That contempt order, issued last fall, will be addressed in a separate legal brief to be filed by the attorney general’s office. That brief and the progress report are due July 27. “I don’t know what (justices) are going to do,” said Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina. He’s one of eight lawmakers on the special legislative panel formed to deliver annual updates to the court as required by the 2012 McCleary decision. The ruling found lawmakers were violating the state Constitution by not covering the cost of basic education for 1 million elementary and secondary schools. That failure is forcing local districts to rely too heavily on levies to pay for such things as classroom expenses and teacher salaries. They ordered the Legislature to rebalance the system by the 2017-18 school year. What the lawmakers approved Tuesday charts how the state will spend $18.2 billion in the 201517 biennium on K-12 education, $2.9 billion more than the last budget. Most of those added dollars will go to pay for McCleary-related requirements for student transportation, expanding all-day kindergarten, shrinking class sizes in kindergarten through third grade and for materials, supplies and operating costs at each school. See REPORT, back page, this section
See MOMENT, Page A2
lot of money. In fact, Apple makes so much money that The Buzz proposes a new metric for reporting its earnings: How many plutocrats could bathe, Scrooge McDuck-style, in tubs full of $100 bills from Apple’s quarterly income? (The answer: About 33,000. Nope, not showing our math.)
now? The Seattle Mariners took the worst record in the American League into Tuesday’s game at Detroit (Page C1). But the pain will soon be over for local sports fans, because baseball season will end July 31. That’s when the Seattle Seahawks training camp gets under way.
Who are they losing to
Surfing the vast cultural
wasteland: Debuting tonight on Fox is a reality series called “Home Free,” which challenges couples to renovate run-down homes (The Clicker, Page D6). Spoiler alert: Given the stresses of home remodeling projects, most if not all of these couples will later be seen on a very different TV show: “Divorce Court.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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