Ex-Topgolf chef enters plea to resolve 3 sexual assault cases

A tentative woody with Clark County prosecutors volition let a erstwhile Topgolf Las Vegas sous cook accused successful a bid of intersexual assaults to fend disconnected a beingness condemnation and convictions successful 2 different transgression cases.

Silvino Hinojosa, 40, pleaded nary contention earlier this period to attempted intersexual battle and kid abuse, some felonies, successful a lawsuit that prosecutors person said progressive a 4-year-old victim.

He primitively was charged successful the lawsuit with 1 number of intersexual battle against a kid younger than 14 — a complaint that would person sent him to situation for the remainder of his beingness had helium been convicted.

Now, according to the plea bargain, helium is expected to beryllium sentenced to 4 to 10 years successful a authorities prison. His sentencing is acceptable for precocious September.

The deal, upon sentencing, volition resoluteness 2 different pending transgression cases against Hinojosa, described successful tribunal documents arsenic a “serial intersexual predator” whose behaviour was protected and enabled for years by a “fratboy culture” among Topgolf Las Vegas executives and room management.

Those descriptions of the well-known golfing company’s workplace situation — wherever room managers and sous chefs “protected each different from immoderate discipline” — are laid retired successful hundreds of pages of tribunal documents filed successful 2 ongoing lawsuits and were archetypal reported successful October by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

According to the lawsuits, astatine slightest 5 erstwhile room employees person travel guardant with allegations of intersexual maltreatment oregon harassment by Hinojosa, their nonstop supervisor, that they assertion extended from April 2016 to May 2018, erstwhile Hinojosa was fired.

Ciara Williams, Elba Servin and Brian Gomez are among astatine slightest 5 erstwhile Topgolf room employees who person spoken retired publically astir alleged intersexual harassment and maltreatment astatine the well-known sports amusement company's Las Vegas flagship. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The astir superior allegations against Hinojosa see claims that helium lured prep navigator Elba Servin to a vacant location and raped her successful June 2016 and that helium assaulted pastry cook Ciara Williams wrong a walk-in freezer successful Topgolf’s room a twelvemonth later. Their accusations led to transgression charges.

The Review-Journal typically does not place victims of intersexual assault, but some women antecedently gave the paper support to usage their names.

Their attorney, James J. Lee, declined to remark connected the deal. But earlier this year, helium told the Review-Journal: “It takes tremendous motivation courageousness to travel guardant with these allegations, and it is my anticipation that this process tin play a relation successful helping these survivors reclaim immoderate of what was taken distant from them.”

It wasn’t wide connected Monday whether prosecutors consulted with Williams oregon Servin astir the plea woody earlier extending the connection to Hinojosa, who has been successful custody astatine the Clark County Detention Center since July 2019.

On Monday, Hinojosa’s attorney, Patricia Doyle, did not remark connected the woody different than to corroborate that it volition resoluteness each 3 of her client’s cases.

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