ALBUQUERQUE – Roland Skeets, 27, an enrolled member of the
Navajo Nation who resides in Smith Lake, N.M., was sentenced today in federal
court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 21 months in prison for his conviction on child abuse
charges. Skeets will be on supervised
release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
Skeets was arrested in Aug. 2017, on an indictment charging
him with child abuse resulting in great bodily injury and child abuse. According to the indictment, the crimes took
place on March 25, 2016, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in McKinley County,
N.M.
On Dec. 6, 2017, Skeets pled guilty to an information
charging him with assault resulting in substantial bodily injury. In entering the guilty plea, Skeets admitted
that on March 25, 2016, he assaulted a four-year-old child by pushing the child
to the ground and yanking him back up by the arm, which fractured the child’s
clavicle. Skeets was intoxicated when he
assaulted the child.
After assaulting the child, Skeets continued yelling,
causing his girlfriend to flee with the injured child and other children to a
neighbor’s house in order to call police.
This case was investigated by the Gallup office of the FBI
and the Crownpoint office of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Marshall
prosecuted the case.
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