LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Time has not healed the wounds for former Topgolf employee Ciara Williams.
"I struggled with this--getting through this--every single day," Ciara said through tears. "There were days where I just... I wanted to give up."
Her former kitchen manager, Silvino Hinojosa, pleaded guilty in August to felony attempted sexual assault of Ciara and another former subordinate at Topgolf Las Vegas.
"It started with brushing alongside me to actually touching me, leading up to the assault that happened."
Assault in the restaurant's walk-in freezer.
"It just felt like I froze in that moment."
With support from a co-worker, as detailed in a lawsuit she later filed, Ciara reported the assault to Human Resources.
"I did a written report for them and asked them if I needed to go to the hospital for a rape exam or if I needed to contact the police and they told me I didn't need to do that--that they would take care of all of that for me."
She took a leave of absence but says nothing changed when she returned.
"Was he still your boss?" asked 13 Chief Investigator Darcy Spears.
"Yes," Ciara said. "He was. He was actually a few months later promoted to a sous chef so it made him my direct boss that I would turn to for anything in the kitchen. It made me feel like I was nothing. It made me feel like I just didn't matter."
It made her feel like she had broken.
"They thought of me as just another minority that would be too afraid to speak up or to try and do anything about it."
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