Unique Jimenez says a night out with friends in downtown Omaha on October 3 ended with her jaw broken in two places and two metal plates permanently fused into her face. The 23-year-old says she met 25-year-old Cedric Williams that night, and what followed left her physically scarred and emotionally shaken weeks later.
Jimenez told KETV that she and Williams continued the evening at a friend's house, where he wanted to have sex and she turned him down. “He wanted to have sex,” she said. “I sobered to the point where I was like, ‘No.’” According to her account, an argument followed, and she said Williams began filming her — prompting her to push his phone away and tell him to stop recording.
That argument, Jimenez said, escalated into violence. She described Williams punching her, a blow that broke her jaw and required doctors to insert two metal plates into her face. “The plates will be there forever,” she said. Jimenez said she also suffered bruises and scratches, but it's the emotional trauma that has been hardest to move past.
Hospital Visit and a Three-Week Wait for an Arrest
Jimenez went to the hospital hours after the attack and reported what happened to investigators that same day, the station's report notes. Despite her report, an arrest was not made until three weeks later. Court documents cited by the outlet show Williams was ultimately charged with two assault charges.
Williams has since bonded out of jail. He is now under GPS monitoring and is barred from contacting Jimenez, and she said he's also required to stay a couple of miles away from her. He is scheduled to appear in court next month, per the same account. Readers can track the case's progress through the Nebraska Judicial Branch's online case search, which pulls filings, hearings and judge orders from the state's trial-court records system.
A Pattern the Numbers Help Explain
Jimenez's case lands amid sobering local statistics on domestic and sexual violence. The Women's Center for Advancement says domestic violence and sexual assault affect one in three women, and the Omaha-based nonprofit reported receiving 5,170 police reports in the area in 2024 alone. That year, the WCA says it provided services to more than 4,385 clients and fielded 9,588 hotline calls, according to the organization's data page.
The WCA also reported serving 380 clients directly in area emergency rooms in 2024, and says more than 75% of its clients live at or below the federal poverty level. Citing the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the WCA notes that over one in three women and one in four men in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner.
The WCA says it assists anyone in the Omaha area experiencing domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking or human trafficking, and that its services are free, aimed at addressing clients' immediate safety needs while helping them move toward independence over time. Its crisis hotline can be reached at 402-345-7273.
