King County prosecutors have charged a 23-year-old Maple Valley paraeducator, who is already facing child rape and molestation charges involving three young boys, with the first-degree rape of a fourth child.
The boy disclosed he was shoved into a shower and raped by Bryan Neyers while attending a summer day care program in 2014, according to prosecutors.
Neyers, who worked in the Tahoma School District before being placed on administrative leave after his initial arrest April 24, was previously charged with two counts of first-degree child molestation. He is
accused of sexually touching two boys, ages 7 and 9, who attended the child-care center at Lake Wilderness Elementary School set up to look after the children of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, court records show.
Neyers spent two days in jail but was released after posting $250,000 bail, jail records show.
During the child-molestation investigation, King County Sheriff’s detectives interviewed a 7-year-old boy who lived in Neyers’ Maple Valley neighborhood after learning the child had spent one-on-one time with Neyers, charging papers say.
The boy disclosed several sexual assaults that occurred in Neyers’ car, bedroom and inside a motor home.
Neyers was arrested a second time April 28 and was charged with first-degree rape of a child and two counts of first-degree child molestation in that case.
On May 6, the father of a fourth boy called sheriff’s detectives and said his son, who is now 13, disclosed that he was sexually assaulted by Neyers in summer 2014, when the boy was 7, say the most recent charges, which were filed Thursday.
Neyers, who was 17 at the time of the 2014 alleged rape, remains jailed, with bail now set at $2 million, jail and court records show.
According to the Tahoma School District, Neyers also worked as a paraeducator at Glacier Lake Elementary School and in the Early Enrichment Program at Tahoma Elementary School.
“Based upon this information, paired with the other previously filed cases, the defendant appears to have been grooming and sexually assaulting young boys in his capacity as a trusted adult for at least the past six years,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Celia Lee wrote in charging papers. “Given that this investigation commenced less than four weeks ago, the degree to which the defendant impressed secrecy upon the presently identified victims, and his access to children, the State believes there may be additional victims.”
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