Port Angeles Woman Faces Five Felony Charges in Child Exploitation Investigation

A 38-year-old Port Angeles woman faces five felony charges after detectives alleged she secretly photographed two girls and sent the images to Tyrone Robert Tokarczyk, the man charged last month in a related child exploitation investigation.

Clallam County prosecutors charged Kelsie Yvonne Soehngen in Superior Court on October 1 with sexual exploitation of a minor, second-degree dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, second-degree possession of those depictions and two counts of first-degree voyeurism.

The charges follow a search of Tokarczyk’s phone that investigators say uncovered photographs and communications involving Soehngen. We previously reported on the four felony charges filed against Tokarczyk in September.

Judge Simon Barnhart’s October 1 release order sets Soehngen’s bail at $500,000. She remained in custody at her October 5 court appearance.

At the October 5 hearing, Barnhart appointed attorney Lane Wolfley to represent her and reset Soehngen’s arraignment for 9 a.m. Friday, October 9. 

The investigation followed a National Center for Missing & Exploited Children CyberTipline report containing images and chat records supplied by the messaging service Kik, according to an arrest report filed by Clallam County sheriff’s Detective Nicholas Cannady. 

Detectives seized Tokarczyk’s phone when they arrested him September 15, the report states.

Cannady wrote that detectives reviewing Tokarczyk’s phone found Snapchat exchanges in which he sent an account bearing Soehngen’s name, photographs and videos of a child in a bathroom in August and September 2026.

On September 25, Cannady obtained an additional warrant expanding the examination of Tokarczyk’s phone to records dating back to January 2020. The detective reported finding Facebook Messenger exchanges in which Soehngen sent photographs of two other girls between December 2022 and September 2024.

The report describes images of one girl changing clothes in a bedroom and a younger girl bathing. Cannady wrote that a photograph sent in December 2022 matched an image in the original CyberTipline report.

Cannady also described sexual discussions about minors and ways to photograph them. His October 1 report said the full digital forensic examination was still pending.

Detectives arrested Soehngen September 30 after she arrived at her Port Angeles apartment parking lot, according to Cannady’s report. He wrote that he advised her of her rights and conducted recorded interviews that evening.

According to Cannady, Soehngen initially denied photographing one girl changing in her bedroom but later acknowledged taking the photographs. She said both girls were unaware they were being photographed and that she sent the images only to Tokarczyk, the report states.

Soehngen also told investigators she had received shower photographs of a child from Tokarczyk and knew the girl’s age, according to the report. Cannady wrote that she denied any physical sexual contact involving the two other girls.

Tokarczyk had separately described his sexual communications as fantasy and denied acting on them during his September 15 interview, Cannady wrote.

Cannady reported that detectives seized phones and other electronics from Soehngen and her residence. He wrote that a bedroom and bathroom in the apartment were consistent with the settings in the photographs investigators had reviewed.

The charging document alleges all five offenses occurred between December 13, 2022, and September 30, 2024. The two voyeurism counts concern separate girls and allege they were viewed, photographed or filmed without their knowledge and consent under circumstances in which they had a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Under the October 1 release order, Soehngen is barred from contact with anyone under 18, including her biological children, and with Tokarczyk. 

The order restricts her travel to Washington, prohibits possession of firearms or other deadly weapons and bars use of electronic devices capable of internet access and capturing still images or video. The court also entered separate no-contact orders protecting four minors.