Man sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting child on White Earth Reservation
OGEMA, Minn. — A man will serve a 20-year federal prison sentence after he was convicted of sexually abusing a minor on the White Earth Band of Ojibwe Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
In a press release Tuesday, the United States Department of Justice reported that Joseph Daniel Schultz, 43, pled guilty to abusive sexual contact with a child under the age of nine.
“Schultz violated a young girl on the White Earth Indian Reservation, shattering the trust and safety every child deserves. That child showed courage no child should ever have to summon,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson in the press release. "Two decades in prison stands as reminder that attacks on Minnesota’s children will be met with condemnation and severe consequences.”
Schultz pled guilty to sexually abusing the victim throughout the fall and winter of 2023. When Schultz was arrested for an unrelated charge, the child told a trusted adult about the abuse.
Prosecutors noted in the press release that one in four girls in the United States experiences sexual abuse as a child. Native American women and girls are reportedly 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault.
One in four girls is 25%. 2.5 times that is 62.5%, or nearly 2/3rds.
Oklahoma man gets 25 years for
child sex abuse conviction
DUNCAN — Following two days of jury trial, a Stephens County man was found guilty of sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl.
Following testimony and evidence on Thursday and Friday, on Tuesday, a Stephens County jury found Lowell Eldon Miller III, 37, of Comanche, guilty of a felony count of sexual abuse of a child under 12, records indicate.
Stephens County Associate District Judge Brent G. Russell sentenced Miller to serve 25 years in prison followed by two years of Department of Corrections supervision upon his release. He will also have to register as a sex offender.
The girl’s mother, who reported to Duncan police, said her daughter told her that Miller inappropriately touched her. The girl told police Miller “keeps touching me and it hurts sometimes,” the probable cause affidavit states. There was another incident where another juvenile saw Miller leaning over the girl while she was lying in bed.
In a forensic interview, the girl said Miller wouldn’t stop touching her when she asked, the affidavit states. She also said Miller likes to play with his camera while he touches her, according to the detective.
Utah firefighter arrested in undercover exploitation sting now faces 15 felony charges
Tyson David Green, 47, of Layton, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday and charged Friday in 3rd District Court with 15 counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, a first-degree felony.
Between July 31 and Wednesday, an undercover agent with the FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force posed online as a father offering his 9-year-old daughter. He was contacted by Green and the two “had a conversation regarding sexual interest in minors,” according to a police booking affidavit.
“When the (undercover agent) asked if he was ‘active’ with his kids, meaning actively abusing them, he replied with, ‘No, I wish,'” the affidavit alleges.
The two continued messaging on an encrypted messaging application. Green said “he had been chatting with ‘pdos’ (pedos) and that they had sent him a pic and he was hooked,” according to the affidavit.
During their messaging, Green also sent images of child sex abuse material to the undercover agent, the affidavit says.
Green was arrested Wednesday “at a fire station in Murray,” police noted in the arrest report. “Green is a firefighter/paramedic for Murray Fire Department, and therefore occupies a position of trust and responsibility in the community. He also has expressed a sexual interest in minor females between the ages of 7 and 17.”
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