Fort Yates Man Pleads Guilty to Sexual Abuse
| U.S. Attorney’s Office June 28, 2011 |
BISMARCK—United States Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on June 28, 2011, Jeffrey D. White Twin, 19, of Fort Yates, North Dakota, pleaded guilty in United States District Court to a charge of sexual abuse.
In October 2010 at White Twin’s apartment in Fort Yates, White Twin engaged in a sexual act with a juvenile victim who was physically incapable of declining participation in or communicating an unwillingness to engage in that sexual act.
The charge of sexual abuse carries a statutory maximum penalty of life in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Indian Affairs - Standing Rock Agency.
Sentencing for White Twin has been scheduled for September 19, 2011, in United States District Court in Bismarck, North Dakota, at 10:00 a.m.
Assistant United States Attorney Rick Volk is prosecuting the case.