Fort Yates Man Pleads Guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact
| U.S. Attorney’s Office September 04, 2013 |
BISMARCK—U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on September 3, 2013, Steven Whiteman, Jr., 43, Fort Yates, North Dakpta, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of abusive sexual contact.
Whiteman admitted using force to engage in sexual contact with a woman on November 4, 2011, in the Fort Yates area.
The charge of abusive sexual contact carries a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs-Standing Rock Agency, and the Standing Rock Police Department.
Sentencing for Whiteman has been scheduled for November 18, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Bismarck, North Dakota, at 10:00 a.m.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme is prosecuting the case.