A Vancouver sex offender who was previously sentenced in federal court on child pornography-related charges was also sentenced in Clark County Superior Court stemming from the same incident. However, he likely won’t serve any additional time.
Blaine K. Nipp, 38, pleaded guilty Friday in Superior Court to two counts of first-degree child molestation and one count of sexual exploitation of a minor. In exchange for his guilty pleas, the prosecution agreed to dismiss one count of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of voyeurism.
Judge Daniel Stahnke sentenced Nipp to 198 months on the molestation charges and 120 months on the sexual exploitation charge to run concurrent with his federal prison sentence. Nipp was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma earlier this year to 23 years in prison for making sexually explicit images of an injured girl.
Clark County Deputy Prosecutor Colin Hayes said the charges in each case are related to the same incident but address different crimes.
Nipp took inappropriate videos and photographs of a 10-year-old girl who had been given pain medication after an injury. The girl’s parents didn’t know Nipp was a registered sex offender when they accepted his offer to help care for their daughter in August 2013 while she recovered.
Nipp was convicted of his first sex offense about 20 years ago when he fathered a child with a 13-year-old girl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Western District office.
He was also convicted of child pornography offenses and for trespassing in an apartment where a 10-year-old was home alone.
Photos from the August 2013 case were later discovered on Nipp’s electronic devices, after he was investigated for trading child pornography over the Internet.
On Friday, the attorneys said they were unsure of where Nipp would serve all of his time but said that it’s likely it will be in a federal prison.
The defense said the soonest Nipp would likely be released is 20 years.
He was given credit for 140 days in custody at the Clark County Jail.
