EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- A woman who posed as a homeless orphaned boy, befriended a teenage girl and was taken into her family's home has pleaded guilty to child molestation.

Sentencing was set for June 18 after Lorelei J. Corpuz, 30, entered her plea Wednesday in Snohomish County Superior Court. Corpuz, 5-foot-3, had to stand on tiptoes to raise her handcuffed wrists high enough so she could sign court documents.

Prosecutors said they would seek a one-year jail term, the maximum under state guidelines. Two other counts of third-degree child rape were dropped last month.

After serving her sentence, Corpuz must register with authorities as a sex offender. She also remains under investigation for fraud and other sex offenses, including accusations in Kitsap County that closely resemble those that ended in the guilty plea.

The girl and family she misled were not in court Wednesday and were relieved by the outcome of the case, Deputy Prosecutor Mark Roe told The Herald of Everett.

"Mostly she and her parents want to do everything they can to keep the TV trucks away from her house and to keep people from sticking microphones in her face," Roe said. "They just want to be left alone. Being a victim of a felony sex offense should not turn you into a sideshow."

The case gained international notoriety last month after authorities wrote that Corpuz successfully posed as Mark Villanueva, a 17-year-old homeless orphan, after meeting the 15-year-old girl at a mall in September 2005. Her parents, immigrants who speak little English, later let him live at their home. The deception came to light after a traffic stop in Everett led to the arrest of Corpuz on an unrelated warrant. The girl, who is now 16, was in the car and told police Corpuz was her boyfriend, according to documents filed in court.

Although Corpuz had sexual contact with the girl, "the suspect never let victim see her/his private parts and victim always thought that suspect was male until officer informed her otherwise," Police Officer Don de Nevens wrote. The girl also said Corpuz beat her and bit her twice on the back, leaving a scar.

Corpuz told investigators she was "still exploring 'whether or not I should become a lesbian,"' Roe wrote.

In a separate case in Everett, detectives have nearly completed a forgery and theft investigation covering at least six instances in which Corpuz is accused of forging checks, some in the name of Mark Villanueva, police Sgt. Robert Goetz said.

In Kitsap County, sheriff's deputies have concluded the detective phase of an investigation into allegations that Corpuz had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old Bremerton girl three years ago.

The case was reopened after sheriff's detectives were contacted by Everett police, and the former Bremerton girl gave a nearly identical account of what happened in Everett -- someone posing as an orphan named Mark and being allowed to move into her home, Kitsap County sheriff's Deputy Scott Wilson said.

That time, though, the presumed boyfriend was sent packing after the relationship turned violent and only well afterward did the former Bremerton girl say she learned she had been duped by an older woman, Wilson said.

"She said she had her suspicions but wanted to believe that she was a he," Wilson said.