A justice raised bail to $1 cardinal for a peculiar acquisition teacher who was indicted this week connected astir 50 kid enactment charges.
Douglas Trinkle, of Boulder City, is accused of repeatedly fondling and raping a miss who was astir 14 erstwhile the alleged maltreatment began successful 2022.
According to the indictment, the assaults continued done March of this year.
Trinkle, 53, was arrested connected March 12, and by the extremity of the period helium had been released connected $75,000 bail, on with different conditions specified arsenic physics monitoring and the surrender of his passport, tribunal records show.
At that time, helium had lone been charged with 2 felony counts: lewdness with a kid and statutory intersexual seduction. In an indictment secured Wednesday, helium faces 46 counts, including intersexual battle of a kid nether 16 and kid maltreatment charges.
Prosecutors told Chief District Judge Jerry Wiese that Trinkle’s bail should beryllium accrued due to the fact that of beardown grounds successful the case.
The justice ordered that Trinkle’s bail beryllium acceptable astatine $1 cardinal and reiterated the merchandise conditions antecedently acceptable by a Boulder City judge.
Trinkle’s attorney, Joel Mann, filed a question to rescind the summation connected Thursday, arguing that it was improperly imposed.
In the filing, Mann said that due to the fact that Trinkle’s archetypal bail was exonerated alternatively than transferred to the proceedings court, his family, who posted a percent of the bail to a bondsman, had to forfeit $11,250.
The defence lawyer besides took contented with the information that helium was not notified astir the proceeding astatine which the justice accrued Trinkle’s bond, leaving him incapable to contiguous his ain arguments.
“Mr. Trinkle is not a information to the assemblage arsenic helium has ne'er been successful occupation earlier and has been a productive and bully national earlier these accusations,” Mann stated successful the document. “Mr. Trinkle should beryllium afforded a tenable bail based connected his deficiency of important transgression past and his important ties to his community.”
Nevada Department of Education records amusement that Trinkle has worked for the Clark County School District since 2012, mostly arsenic a peculiar acquisition instructor. Trinkle has worked arsenic a teacher astatine Cimarron-Memorial since the 2023-24 schoolhouse year, records show.
School officials antecedently said that helium was not allowed connected the precocious school’s campus. District officials could not instantly beryllium reached Thursday regarding Trinkle’s presumption arsenic a teacher.
In a March statement, Boulder City Police Chief Timothy Shea said the incidental was not connected with the suspect’s employment.
Contact Akiya Dillon astatine adillon@reviewjournal.com.
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