ALBUQUERQUE – Elmira Curley, 22, an enrolled member of the
Navajo Nation who resides in Navajo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court
in Albuquerque, N.M., to 120 months in prison for her conviction on assault and
child abuse charges. Curley will be on
supervised release for five years after completing her prison sentence.
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, N.M., on March 14, 2016.
On Feb. 13, 2018, 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.
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 was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Nicholas J. Marshall.
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