Plea Agreement Recommends Ten Year Prison Sentence
ALBUQUERQUE – Elmira Curley, 22, an enrolled member of the
Navajo Nation who resides in Navajo, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal
court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assault and child abuse charges. Curley entered her guilty plea under a plea
agreement that recommends a sentence of 120 months of imprisonment followed by
a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety arrested
Curley on July 6, 2016, on an indictment charging her with abusing a child
resulting in great bodily harm. The
indictment alleged that Curley committed the crime on the Navajo Indian Reservation
in McKinley County on March 14, 2016.
During today’s change of plea hearing, Curley pled guilty to
a two-count felony information charging her with assault resulting in serious
bodily harm and child abuse. In her plea
agreement, Curley admitted that on March 14, 2016, she committed the crimes of
assault and child abuse in Navajo, N.M., which is on the Navajo Indian
Reservation. Curley admitted committing
these crimes by putting the legs and feet of a nine-month-old infant into a
bathtub of scalding hot water and causing the infant to sustain severe
burns. Curley acknowledged that the
infant-victim was hospitalized for several weeks for medical treatment and
received skin grafts to repair some of the second- and third-degree burns she
sustained as the result of the assault and abuse.
Curley is in federal custody and remains detained pending
her sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.
The Gallup, N.M., and Phoenix, Ariz., offices of the FBI and
the Window Rock, Ariz., office of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety
investigated this case, which is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Nicholas J. Marshall.
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