U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, S.D., man charged with sexual abuse was sentenced on Jan. 23, 2012. Jerry Matthew Chasing Hawk, 52, was sentenced to 131 months in prison, five years of supervised release. Chasing Hawk was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 12, 2011, and was found guilty after a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, on October 19, 2011. The conviction relates to Chasing Hawk's sexual abuse of an Eagle Butte woman on Aug. 8, 2009, in Fort Thompson, S.D.
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Violent Crime: Eagle Butte Man Sentenced for Sexual Abuse
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