Wednesday, June 19, 2024

41-year-old Karlos J. Soriano-Cabrera, C-Viche Co-owner Found Guilty On 3 Felony Counts And 1 Misdemeanor Count For Sexually Assaulting Women In Milwaukee

Soriano-Cabrera has been found guilty on 3 felony counts of sexually assaulting women, which some were employees of the C-Viche Restaurant on S. Kinickinnic Ave. in Bay View, now closed.

By H. Nelson Goodson 
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

June 19, 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - A Milwaukee County jury on June 7th found Karlos J. Soriano-Cabrera, 41, guilty on 3 felony counts of 3rd-degree sexual assault and 1 misdemeanor count for 4th-degree sexual assault in the case that involved some women that were employed at the C-Viche Restaurant at the 2000 block of S. Kinickinnic Ave. in Bay View, now closed.

Soriano-Cabrera is facing up to 10 years in prison and up to $25,000 in fines, or both for each 3rd-degree sexual assault count, and up to 9 months in jail and up to $10,000 in fines, or both for 4th-degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor.

Soriano-Cabrera was taken into custody by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office and is awaiting sentencing.

Soriano-Cabrera is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on July 11.

The criminal complaint says, some of the women Soriano-Cabrera sexually assaulted were employees at the C-Viche Restaurant in Bay View who claimed that they worked in a toxic environment in a daily basis, where he would expose himself, then assaulting them and sexual misconduct occurred in a daily basis. One of the woman says, that he grabbed her inappropriately, and made multiple attempts to corner her and kiss her at the restaurant. 

Several of the sexual assaults occurred inside the C-Viche on Bay View and in March 2017, a woman alleged that Soriano-Cabrera gave her a ride home and he forced her to give him oral sex near E. Locust and  N. Pierce. The woman told police that he put his hand in her back and directed her body to the downward position to perform the sex act. Among the employee female victims includes a patron.

The employees who were sexually assaulted claimed that Soriano-Cabrera used his position as the co-owner of C-Viche to force himself on them.

The sexual assaults occurred between March 2017 to September 2022. (5-page criminal complaint at article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2023/04/karlos-javier-soriano-cabrera-c-viche.html)


Source: Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA)

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