Spearfish hotel says it couldn't have known about employee's past sexual deviancy
Company asks judge to make immediate decision in case where two boys were sexually assaulted
A Spearfish hotel is denying that it is liable for an employee who sexually assaulted two children in a public restroom.
The employee in question, Michael Schily, was convicted in July of assaulting the two boys, ages 6 and 3, in a men’s bathroom at the Spearfish Holiday Inn. Schily, 21, is currently incarcerated in the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. His prison sentence expires in 2049, according to Department of Corrections records.
The parents of the two boys – identified as Johnny and Jack Doe – were in South Dakota from Minnesota for a family wedding in December, 2023. They met members of the wedding party at the Lucky‘s 13 Pub, a restaurant attached to the hotel.
