GRAND FORKS—U.S. Attorney Timothy Q.
Purdon announced that on August 27, 2012, Allen H. Demarce, Sr. of Tokio, North
Dakota, was sentenced before
U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on
a charge of child abuse and neglect in Indian Country.
Judge Erickson sentenced Demarce, Sr. to
six months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Demarce, Sr. must serve the first six months of supervision at a residential
recovery and re-entry center. Demarce, Sr. was ordered to pay restitution in
the amount of $756 and to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim’s
Fund.
Demarce, Sr., 29, pleaded guilty on June
1, 2012, to assaulting a 2-year-old child by striking him with an open hand,
resulting in bodily injury to the child’s face, arms, and back. The incident
occurred in March of 2011 on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.
The case was investigated by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Janice M. Morley prosecuted
the case.
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