Tuesday, April 23, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.
When Deputy District Attorney Abbi Silver alleged that a dean's list student in UNLV's hotel administration college was a "sexual predator" in an April 11 attack on a neighbor, it resulted in a bail of $250,000.
When Silver told how the victim bit her attacker's penis until he dropped his knife, it resulted in muffled groans from the audience and the other prisoners.
"She bit his penis so hard he couldn't do anything," Silver said. "But for that fact, she could have been killed."
Justice of the Peace Nancy Oesterle on Tuesday set a May 6 preliminary hearing for Scott David Schwartz, 21, who remained in the Clark County Detention Center on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary and battery with the intent to commit a crime.
Metro Police Sgt. Mike Thompson said the incident in the woman's West Charleston Boulevard apartment began when her attacker broke in the front door while she was in the shower.
The man, wearing a pair of her panties on his head and wielding a butcher knife, jumped into the shower and dragged her out, Thompson said.
Silver recounted that before the man could rape the defendant, she offered to perform oral sex.
While the prosecutor said the defendant readily agreed, it wasn't the experience he expected. The deep bite marks were evident in a series of close-up photos that Metro had taken for the court case.
Thompson said the victim, who suffered several knife wounds on her hands while defending herself, raced screaming from her apartment after inflicting the injuries on her attacker.
A neighbor called 911 and a former police officer living in the apartment complex tried unsuccessfully to apprehend the rapist, Thompson said.
The getaway car was tracked down to an area by Schwartz's apartment. The engine was warm and there was blood on the steering wheel, the detective said.
When police searched his apartment, they found his pants soaked in water from the shower, Silver said.
In asking for a low bail, defense attorney Ken Cory noted that Schwartz is an honor student who "never has had any brush with the law."
But Silver countered, "I consider him a sexual predator who is an extreme danger to society.
"Just because he has a resume that he is a stellar honor student doesn't mean he should be treated differently than anyone else."
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