REPORT: Busting Abusers
The Montana U.S. Attorney’s Office has a message to those who sexually assault children on Indian reservations: You will be prosecuted.
Gerhard Curtis Stern, a 33-year-old Ashland resident, was sentenced last fall to 40 years in federal prison for assaulting a child on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. A jury found Stern guilty of aggravated sexual assault for engaging in sex acts with a 4-year-old child over seven months. The FBI investigated after the child told a school nurse Stern had touched her inappropriately.
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
Educate Yourself -- Learn the Facts
It May Just Save a Child's Life!!