David Wolfsmith, a 51-year-old personal trainer and former owner of a Morgan Hill gym, pleaded guilty last week to sexually assaulting more than a dozen female victims—one of them a child—according to Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Tim McInerny.
Wolfsmith, a Morgan Hill resident, entered the plea at South County Courthouse June 23. Specifically, he pleaded guilty to 14 counts “pertaining to 13 charged victims,” McInerny said. One of the counts was a felony charge of lewd and lascivious acts against a child younger than 14, and another was a misdemeanor charge of child molestation.
The other 12 charges to which Wolfsmith pleaded guilty are felony counts of sexual battery by fraudulent purpose, related to 13 victims, McInerny said.
Wolfsmith agreed to a prison term of seven years in exchange for the guilty plea, according to court files. He also agreed to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, and to pay restitution. He will be formally sentenced Aug. 25 at the South County Courthouse in Morgan Hill, where the judge will determine how much restitution Wolfsmith must pay, among other penalty requirements.
Wolfsmith assaulted the victims when he was a personal trainer for the Wolfpak Training Center, which he owned with his wife, Julia Wolfsmith, according to authorities. The Wolfpak gym was located in downtown Morgan Hill near the corner of Monterey Road and Third Street.
David Wolfsmith used his position as a personal trainer to gain the trust of the victims who trained at Wolfpak, according to police reports contained in the court file. He convinced numerous female victims to let him massage them as part of their personal training and recovery regimen. During these massages, he subsequently touched the victims in sexually explicit or inappropriate ways that made the women feel uncomfortable or threatened.
Wolfsmith also asked some of the victims to take off all of their clothing before he gave them a massage, according to the court file. In at least one instance, he removed a victim’s pants and underwear while he was massaging her.
Wolfsmith touched these victims in this way “for the purpose of sexual arousal, and fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose,” the police report states.
Morgan Hill Police officers arrested David Wolfsmith April 11, 2016 in relation to accusations of sexual assault made by five female victims. The initial MHPD investigation began February 2016. After Wolfsmith’s initial arrest, more victims came forward, and the D.A.’s office added more charges to his case.
After he made bail following his initial arrest, Wolfsmith continued to train clients in Morgan Hill, and attempted to open a gym in San Jose, according to authorities.
