Tri-Cities actual property agent enters plea after allegedly messaging a young person about intercourse

A Tri-Cities actual property agent pleaded not responsible in Benton County Superior Court docket on Monday to a single misdemeanor cost of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.

Charging paperwork allege Carolyn Celski, 38, of Kennewick, exchanged a number of textual content messages with a 14-year-old boy about having intercourse beginning round Dec. 5, 2022.

At her preliminary listening to this week, Benton County Choose Joseph Burrowes issued Celski a no-contact order with the sufferer. She can be barred from any unsupervised contact with anybody below the age of 18, both in-person or on-line, until they’re family.

Burrowes additionally weighed an order that will have required Celski to remain out of areas with kids actions — similar to daycares, playgrounds or parks — however declined to concern it at this level.

Following the listening to, Celski was booked into Benton County Jail for an hour and launched on her personal recognizance. She’s additionally been ordered to relinquish her passport to the Benton County Sheriff’s Workplace.

The court docket discovered her to not be a flight threat. She doesn’t have a earlier felony historical past.

A trial date has been set for Dec. 9.

“We’re glad the decide went with the really useful situations and didn’t really feel pressured by the highlight that’s been positioned on this case,” mentioned her protection legal professional, Deric Orr, in a press release. “The situations that had been set strike a steadiness between the general public’s pursuits and Ms. Celski’s rights as a citizen that’s been accused of a criminal offense.”

Celski and her husband Jason Celski, personal Celski and Associates, a property administration and actual property gross sales agency. They handle dozens of houses, residences and industrial properties throughout the Tri-Cities, in line with the corporate’s web site. Carolyn Celski is a state-licensed actual property dealer, a certification she’s held since 2013.

Jason Celski additionally operates his personal legislation agency in Kennewick. Prosecutors within the case have requested that an out-of-county decide oversee future hearings as a result of Jason’s ties to the legislation group, however have deemed Burrowes neutral and unbiased to the matter.

Social media messages

Court docket paperwork filed final month present Celski admitted to Benton County deputies in a Dec. 30, 2022, interview to chatting with the teenage sufferer about having intercourse over the span of some days earlier than deleting the messages and all her social media.

On about Dec. 10, Celski referred to as Ryan Kelly, a sergeant with the Kennewick Police Division, to ask for “private {and professional}” recommendation.

Kelly coached a sports activities crew along with her son and the sufferer, in line with court docket paperwork.

She informed the sergeant she “had been texting with one of many gamers on the crew and her husband, Jason Celski, discovered about it and left her over it,” in line with court docket paperwork. She allegedly informed Kelly she “hadn’t despatched any pictures or executed something bodily with the kid.” She additionally admitted to texting with one other youngster from the crew, court docket paperwork say.

Public data affirm the couple separated in late 2022, however later reconciled.

Kelly recounted to a Benton County detective that Celski admitted that the sufferer “mentioned one thing to the impact of asking the place they may meet to hook up and the defendant responded with ‘Automobile?’ and an emoji of an individual holding their ups up,” paperwork say. She mentioned she had “misplaced some weight lately and has loved the eye.”

“Sgt. Kelly suggested the defendant reported that her husband may be very upset and ‘thinks I wish to f*** a 14 12 months outdated,’” court docket paperwork learn. “

She had admitted to the sufferer’s dad and mom that she “let issues go too far.”

The teenager informed investigators that Celski first messaged him “out of the blue” on Instagram a couple of journey the sports activities crew was on. They started speaking, in line with court docket paperwork, and he or she requested him if he had ever had intercourse.

“(The sufferer) reported that he’s a virgin, however needed to behave cool so he informed the defendant that he has had intercourse. (The sufferer) suggested he responded to the defendant asking her if she needed to do it and he or she replied ‘sadly, sure,’” court docket paperwork learn.

The teenager mentioned they meant to have intercourse however they didn’t have a particular plan. That they had talked about her selecting him up from college however that hadn’t occurred.

The messages reportedly ended on Dec. 7 or 8, 2022, when Celski allegedly texted him that she was “out of line” and that they couldn’t speak anymore. She additionally requested him to delete her messages, which he did, mentioned the paperwork.

Nonetheless, the teenager’s dad and mom had been in a position to give investigators some screenshots of the messages between Carolyn Celski and their son, in line with court docket paperwork. No screenshots had been included with the court docket paperwork. When Benton County detectives interviewed Carolyn Celski, she admitted to having the dialog with the teenager when she requested if he’d ever had intercourse.

“The defendant reported she informed (the sufferer) that he wouldn’t know what to do along with her if he tried and that (the sufferer) responded that she may train him,” in line with court docket paperwork. “The defendant suggested she couldn’t recall the place the dialog went from there.”