A former Auburn man who spent 16 years in prison for murdering a Clallam County couple in 1991 is heading back to the pen for raping a 7-year old girl.

A King County Superior Court Judge last week sentenced 44-year-old Leslie Guy Wilson to 26½ years in prison. Owing to the heinous nature of the crime, however, the penal system could hold him indefinitely.

Wilson claimed the girl had wrongly accused him.

According to the Auburn Police Department’s Certification for Determination of Probable Cause, the abuse occurred sometime between 2009 and 2012, one morning while the girl was at home, waiting for the school bus. At that hour, according to the police statement, Wilson was the only other person awake in the house.

According to the police statement, in November 2012, the girl told her grandmother about the abuse after the grandmother informed her Wilson planned to return to the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation.

According to the statement, the girl told the grandmother something to the effect that she didn’t like it when Wilson “touches me with his pickle.”

A King County jury convicted Wilson in January of first-degree child rape and attempted first-degree child rape.

Wilson spent 16 years in prison for the second-degree murders of an Olympic Peninsula couple on the Makah Indian Reservation in Neah Bay. Federal prosecutors then tried to have him returned to prison for probation violations.

After learning the girl had reported the abuse, Wilson, then at a probationary halfway house following the federal convictions for the two Neah Bay murders, removed his monitoring device and escaped, King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Cecelia Gregson told the court.

“It appears from the timing of his early and illegal departure from the halfway house, (Wilson) was informed of the pending sexual assault investigation into his abuse of (the girl) and attempted to flee the jurisdiction,” Gregson said.