Ardmore Resident Sentenced For Abusive Sexual Contact Of A Child

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Dustin Wayne Hayes, age 41, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced for sexually abusing four children under the age of 12.  Hayes was sentenced to 20 years in prison for one count of Abusive Sexual Contact in Indian Country, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2244(a)(5), 2246(3), 1151, and 1152.  Following his term of imprisonment, Hayes will be placed on a life-time term of supervised release and required to register as a sex offender.

The charges arose from investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Oklahoma City and Ardmore Field Offices, the Ardmore Police Department, Sara’s Project, and the Carter County District Attorney’s Office.

On November 22, 2022, Hayes pleaded guilty to knowingly engaging and causing sexual contact with a child under the age of 12.  According to court documents, Hayes repeatedly sexually abused four young children beginning as early as 2009 and continuing through 2014.  The child victims, who were as young as five and six years old when the abuse began, came forward and provided critical evidence and information to law enforcement regarding the sexual abuse.

The crime occurred in Carter County, within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearings in Muskogee.  Hayes will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Special Assistant United States Attorneys Jenna Rudoff (Dallas, TX) and Callie Woolam (Lubbock, TX) represented the United States.