Department of Corrections contractor admits false rape allegation to cover up her own sexual misconduct
A state Department of Corrections contractor admitted Monday she falsely accused an inmate of raping her after Kitsap County sheriff s detectives began investigating her for pressuring the man into sex.
Taressa Jolene Browning, 32, met the man while working as a facility monitor for Progress House, a company the state uses to operate its Peninsula Work Release facility on Lloyd Parkway in Port Orchard.
Her job was to monitor inmates after their release from prison and drive them to and from work.
On Monday, Browning was sentenced to 180 days in jail and will have to register as a sex offender. Last month she pleaded guilty to first-degree custodial sexual misconduct, second-degree extortion, malicious prosecution and attempted first-degree sexual misconduct.