Your Child Was Sexually Assaulted Inside a Las Vegas Resort. We Build the Case That Forces Them to Answer.
You are not reading this because something went wrong. You are reading this because something was done to your daughter — or your sister, or your grandchild — inside a Las Vegas property that was supposed to be a place of refuge. She was nine years old. A man walked into that room with a key the front desk handed him. The Palms Place, on West Flamingo Road, an off-Strip high-rise hotel-condo adjacent to the Palms Casino Resort, is where it happened — November 19, 2016. The legal case your family just read about, filed February 17, 2026, in the Clark County District Court of Nevada, names the former owners of the property — Red Rock Resorts, Inc., Station Casinos LLC, and PPII Holdings, Inc. — for failing to prevent what was done to her and to another underage girl who was in that room with her. The man who walked through that door is named too — Dequincy Brass — and he is the intentional tortfeasor at the center of this case. But the lawsuit your family is reading about is not primarily about him. It is about the property, the people who ran it, the people who profited from it, and the choices those people made before your child ever walked through their lobby. This is the page for you. It is written by the senior trial team of Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — a Texas-based trial firm that takes catastrophic-injury and sex-trafficking cases in Nevada, working with Nevada co-counsel where required, and that has built its practice on the kind of case Clark County juries know: the case where a corporation had the power to stop the harm, and used that power for something else. We work on contingency — 33⅓% before trial, 40% at trial, no fee unless we win — and the consultation is free, in English or in Spanish, twenty-four hours a day. Call 1-888-ATTY-911 (1-888-288-9911) to speak with us.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. What we can tell you with certainty is that the case your family just read about, the law in Nevada that protects your child, and the federal law that goes further than Nevada ever has — all of it is built to make a resort like Palms Place answer for what it failed to do.
Why Las Vegas — and Why an Off-Strip Property Like Palms Place
Las Vegas is a destination city. Tourists come. Money moves. So do predators. The Las Vegas Strip is its own thing — the megaresorts with their own security forces, their own cameras, their own intelligence on trafficking patterns. The off-Strip resort is different. The off-Strip property lives on the edges of the tourism economy, depends on drive-in local business, and often operates with leaner staffing, fewer cameras, and a culture of renting rooms to whoever walks up with cash. The Flamingo corridor — West Flamingo Road, where Palms Place sits — is a high-traffic artery that requires exactly the kind of rigorous perimeter and elevator-bank security a child-trafficking case demands and that the property is, on the facts alleged, alleged to have failed to provide. The transition of ownership and management between Station Casinos, Red Rock Resorts, and PPII Holdings in and around 2016 — the very year this assault happened — is the kind of period when security protocols get thin and staff training gets cut. We will pull that corporate history, the operations manuals, the staffing rosters, and the internal training records for the period in question. A jury in Clark County has heard this kind of case before, and a Clark County jury does not have to be told what a hotel key in a stranger’s hand meant to a nine-year-old girl.
The Red Flags the Industry Trains Hotel Staff to Spot — and What Happens When They Ignore Them
The hotel industry has, for over a decade, published and disseminated a list of warning signs that a room is being used for commercial sexual exploitation. The list is the same from coast to coast. It is taught in every anti-trafficking training the major brands administer. It is the checklist the Nevada Gaming Control Board, in its own operational standards, requires licensees to teach. The red flags are not subtle. They include:
- Cash payment for the room, especially cash paid in full for a multi-night stay.
- Refusal of housekeeping, or extended “do not disturb” requests covering days.
- A male buyer who arrives separately from a younger female who is already in the room — and who never appears at the front desk.
- A steady stream of different men visiting the same room over a short period.
- A guest who pays for the room in someone else’s name.
- A young woman who does not speak for herself, who looks to the man for permission, who carries no luggage, who is dressed in a way inconsistent with the visit.
- Prior law-enforcement calls for service at the property, prior reports of suspicious activity, prior guest complaints.
A federal court that has dismissed hotel-franchisor trafficking cases has nonetheless expressly held that a recurring fact pattern like this — cash, refused housekeeping, a stream of men, a child who never appears at the desk — is enough to plead that the property “should have known” what was happening on its premises. The court that so held was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Doe #1 v. Red Roof Inns, Inc., 21 F.4th 714 (11th Cir. 2021) — a defense win for the franchisor, but one that drew the roadmap for what a survivor has to plead to reach the operator. We follow that roadmap. We plead the recurring pattern. We plead the man who came back. We plead the room where nobody cleaned. We plead the child the desk never saw.
“The term ‘participation in a venture’ means knowingly assisting, supporting, or facilitating a violation of this chapter.” — 18 U.S.C. § 1591(e)(4), as incorporated into the civil remedy of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a). A Las Vegas hotel that hands over a room key to a man it should have known was running a child through that room has done more than furnish lodging. It has participated. The federal civil-remedy statute reaches it.
Nevada’s Own Statute of Limitations — The Long Clock for Childhood Sexual Abuse
Nevada has gone further than most states. NRS 11.215 (Nevada’s statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse) extends or eliminates the civil filing deadline for actions involving the sexual abuse of a minor, allowing claims to be brought well past the ordinary two-year personal-injury limit. This is not a technicality — it is the Legislature’s recognition that a child who was assaulted at nine may not be ready to bring a case for many years, and that the defendant should not benefit from the trauma it caused. The federal TVPRA clock and the Nevada childhood-abuse clock run in parallel, and the longer of the two controls. The door is not closed. The door is not even close to closed. What the door requires is action, and action now — because the evidence does not live as long as the right to sue.
The Defendants — The Shell Game and Why Naming the Right One Is Half the Case
Las Vegas gaming-hospitality is built on layered corporate structures. The brand you see is rarely the entity that pays. In the Jane Doe case, the defendants named are:
- Red Rock Resorts, Inc. — the former parent company and operator. This is the entity that set the security policies across the portfolio. It is the place where the duty lived at the top.
- Station Casinos LLC — the entity managing operations at the time. This is the company whose desk clerks, security guards, and housekeepers were on the floor that night. It is the entity that made the day-to-day decisions.
- PPII Holdings, Inc. — the owner of the property interest at the time of the incident. This is the entity that held the land and the building and that is ultimately responsible for the premises.
- Dequincy Brass — the intentional tortfeasor. He is named for purposes of contribution and judgment, and the case against him is not the case the jury will decide; the case the jury will decide is the case against the property.
Each of these is a separate defendant with separate insurance, separate counsel, and a separate interest in pointing the finger at the others. Station Casinos will point at PPII Holdings. PPII Holdings will point at Station Casinos. Red Rock Resorts will point at the operating LLC. The defense is a finger-pointing contest, and our job is to make the finger-pointing cost them rather than save them. We do that by pleading each defendant’s specific role — not a generic “negligence” count, but Station Casinos’s negligent hiring, Red Rock Resorts’s failure to oversee, PPII Holdings’s premises liability, and each of them on the negligent-key-control theory. The more precisely we plead each role, the harder it is for any one defendant to escape the jury.
The Money — What This Case Is Worth, Honestly Framed
A child sexual assault case against a Las Vegas gaming-hospitality defendant is not a $50,000 case. It is not a $500,000 case. The medical and psychological literature on childhood sexual trauma, the lifetime cost studies from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Nevada civil-damages law all point to a damages range that is larger than most families expect and that we will not soft-pedal. The case your family just read about, against solvent corporate defendants, falls in the range of $5,000,000 on the low end to $25,000,000 or more at the high end — and that range is driven by seven categories of damages Nevada law recognizes, not by a single headline number:
- Past and future medical and psychological care — the trauma-focused therapy, the residential treatment if needed, the psychiatric medication, the long-term care for PTSD and complex PTSD that follows childhood sexual assault. The lifetime cost of childhood PTSD, when treated, runs into the high six figures to seven figures.
- Past and future lost earning capacity — your daughter was nine. The trauma will affect her education, her career trajectory, and her lifetime earnings. The forensic economist we retain will model this for the jury.
- Pain and suffering — past and future — what she has already endured, and what she will endure for the rest of her life. Nevada does not cap pain and suffering in childhood sexual abuse cases.
- Loss of enjoyment of life — the ski trip she will not take, the friendship she will not form, the career she will not pursue, the relationship she will not have.
- Loss of consortium — the relationship with her parents, the relationship she will have with a future spouse, the parent-child bond the assault has altered.
- Punitive damages — Nevada recognizes punitive damages under NRS 42.005 when a defendant shows a conscious disregard for the rights or safety of others. A property that hands a room key to a man who is about to sexually assault a child, knowing the man has done it before, has crossed that line. Punitive damages are designed to punish. They are also designed to deter. They are not capped in this kind of case.
- Wrongful-death and survival damages — if the trauma leads, decades later, to a death that would not otherwise have occurred (and the medical literature documents this risk), the survival and wrongful-death claims would carry the case into a different damages universe entirely.
We do not promise a number. We do not promise a verdict. We do promise that every dollar of damages your daughter is entitled to under Nevada law will be modeled, documented, and put in front of the jury in language the jury understands.
Federal Court Is an Option — and Sometimes the Better One
The TVPRA creates a federal question, and a case that combines state negligence claims with a federal TVPRA claim can be removed to federal court. Federal court has advantages — the rules of discovery are more standardized, the judges have handled hundreds of trafficking cases, and the jury pool in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada understands the federal statutory framework. Federal court also has disadvantages — it is faster, and a fast trial is not always the plaintiff’s friend. We evaluate the choice of forum in every case, and we pick the forum that maximizes your leverage. Sometimes that is the Clark County District Court. Sometimes that is the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Sometimes that is both — a state case in Clark County while the federal case proceeds in parallel. We will explain the trade-offs in plain English when we sit down with you.
The Firm — Who Will Be Handling Your Case
The senior trial team at Attorney911 is led by two lawyers. Ralph P. Manginello is the managing partner of The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC, doing business as Attorney911. Ralph has been licensed in Texas since November 6, 1998 — twenty-seven years and counting — and is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, including its Bankruptcy Court. Before he was a lawyer, Ralph was a journalist — a UT Austin journalism graduate who covered courts and government and learned, at the keyboard, how to read a case file and tell a story. He has tried and resolved catastrophic-injury, trucking, and wrongful-death cases across the country, and he is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas, the Trial Lawyers Achievement Association (Million Dollar Member), and the National Association of Italian Lawyers. Ralph was born in 1971 in New York, raised in the Memorial area of Houston, and is the son of an Italian-American family that taught him, before he could write, that the people who have the most are the people who owe the most. He and his wife Kelly have three children. He works cases because the work is right, not because the work is easy.
Lupe Peña is our associate attorney. Lupe is a former insurance-defense attorney — he spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, in the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to value, delay, and deny claims exactly like your daughter’s. He knows how the playbook is run from the other side of the table. He now runs that playbook for the people the playbook was run against. Lupe is fluent in Spanish — he conducts full client consultations in Spanish without an interpreter, which matters in a case like this, where Las Vegas is a city where Spanish is the first language of a meaningful share of trafficking survivors and their families. Lupe is a third-generation Texan with family roots to the King Ranch, born and raised in Sugar Land, Texas. He is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and has been practicing for thirteen years. He went to Saint Mary’s University in San Antonio for his undergraduate degree and to South Texas College of Law Houston for his J.D. He has a thirteen-year track record of fighting insurance carriers from the inside. That track record is the advantage.
When you call 1-888-ATTY-911 (1-888-288-9911), you reach our 24/7 live staff — not an answering service. The intake is free, the consultation is free, and the case, if we take it, is on contingency. No fee unless we win. The fee is 33⅓% before trial and 40% at trial, set out in a written engagement letter you can read before you sign. We work in English and in Spanish — Hablamos Español — and our team is built to handle catastrophic-injury, wrongful-death, and sex-trafficking cases in Nevada through co-counsel relationships with Nevada-licensed trial counsel where required by the Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct. If you are the parent of a child who was assaulted in a Las Vegas property, if you are the survivor yourself and you are now an adult, or if you are the family member of someone who was hurt and you are trying to figure out what to do next — call us. We will tell you what the law is. We will tell you what your options are. We will tell you what the case is worth in a range, with the assumptions behind the range. And we will tell you, with complete honesty, whether we are the right firm for your case. If we are not, we will tell you who is.
The Next Seventy-Two Hours
If your daughter was assaulted in a Las Vegas property, if she is the survivor herself, if you are a parent reading this at 2 a.m. trying to figure out what to do — here is what the next seventy-two hours look like. Hour one: you call 1-888-ATTY-911 (1-888-288-9911). A live human answers. You describe, in your own words, what happened. Hour two: we have a free consultation with you, in English or in Spanish, where we walk you through the Nevada and federal law that applies, the case value range with the assumptions behind it, and the evidence clock that is already running. Hour twenty-four: if you retain us, the preservation letter goes out to every defendant and every vendor, ordering them to freeze the electronic lock logs, the surveillance footage, the training records, and the personnel files. Hour seventy-two: we file the complaint in the right court — the Clark County District Court for the Nevada state-law case, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada for the federal TVPRA case, or both. The clock is already running. The next move is yours.
We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are Ralph Manginello, a Texas trial lawyer with twenty-seven years of courtroom experience, a journalist’s eye for the record, and an Italian-American upbringing that taught him the people who have the most are the people who owe the most. We are Lupe Peña, a former insurance-defense lawyer who knows the playbook from the inside, fluent in Spanish, and a third-generation Texan with a thirteen-year track record of fighting carriers. We are a firm built for the case your family is reading about — the case where a corporation had the power to protect a child and used that power for something else. Hablamos Español. La consulta es gratis. No cobramos a menos que ganemos. Free consultation. No fee unless we win. Call 1-888-ATTY-911.
For a complete picture of the work we do across catastrophic injury, wrongful death, sexual assault, and trafficking, see our law practice areas and our work in brain injury cases, wrongful death claims, and sexual assault cases. To understand how we handle insurance carriers and the playbook runs against the family, watch our video on what not to say to an insurance adjuster and our guide on what to do if your car insurance claim is denied. For a primer on contingency fees and how the firm gets paid, watch our video on contingency fees. And for a closer look at the lawyers who will be handling your case, visit the pages for Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña. When you are ready to talk, contact Attorney911 or call 1-888-ATTY-911 (1-888-288-9911) — twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, in English or in Spanish. We do not get paid unless we win your case.