LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A grand jury returned a second indictment in opposition to Valley Excessive Faculty’s former head soccer coach, the 8 Information Now Investigators have discovered.
Antwone Washington, 45, is charged with extra intercourse crimes after prosecutors stated detectives discovered extra youngster sexual abuse materials on Washington’s cellular phone.
“Mr. Washington is a sexual predator,” Clark County Chief Deputy District Lawyer William ‘Billy’ Rowles stated at a grand jury studying Wednesday morning.
The grand jury additionally indicted Jada Cole. She is described as one in all Washington’s girlfriends.
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The case started with one alleged sufferer, a teen woman. Prosecutors have recognized two toddlers as extra victims after they stated Washington and Cole created youngster sexual abuse materials. They’re kids Washington and Cole had been individually babysitting, in keeping with Rowles.
Rowles stated the pair was seen on video sexually abusing the teenager scholar on faculty grounds.
“We recovered videos where he was engaging in sexual intercourse with her, where he was engaging in fellatio with her, where he was urinating on her face and performing other sex acts with the juvenile,” Rowles stated. “We found a photograph which we connected to Mr. Washington, where his penis is exposed, and there is another toddler.”
Clark County District Courtroom Chief Decide Jerry Wiese elevated Washington’s bail from $100,000 to $250,000. Rowles requested Wiese to set bail at $500,000.
“Not only do we have a teacher or a football coach who’s used his position within our community to abuse and take advantage of students, we also now have an individual who we found is essentially sexually abusing photographing toddlers, infants, children who are not more than three years of age,” Rowles instructed Wiese.
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The proof within the case is described as so graphic, it’s sealed.
Prices in opposition to Washington and Cole embody use of a minor to provide pornography, first-degree kidnapping, and extra.
Washington admitted to intercourse acts with the teenager however claimed he thought she was over the age of 16, police stated. The age of consent in Nevada is 16. He instructed detectives he had three girlfriends, along with his spouse, in keeping with police.
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Washington’s spouse held a management function on the Las Vegas Justice Courtroom. He instructed police he had a polygamous relationship. The case was moved from Las Vegas to Henderson Justice Courtroom as a result of private connection, the 8 Information Now Investigators discovered, regardless of Las Vegas Justice Courtroom administration’s refusal to remark.
A jury trial for Washington is scheduled for July 21.
Cole’s subsequent courtroom date is scheduled for Thursday, in keeping with jail data.
To succeed in investigative reporter Vanessa Murphy, electronic mail vmurphy@8newsnow.com.
For extra details about the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline, go to this hyperlink.
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