Coweta Resident Sentenced To Sixteen Years For Abusing Child

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that Axton Cole Chancellor, age 25, of Coweta, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 192 months in prison each for one count of Child Abuse in Indian Country and one count of Child Neglect in Indian Country. The sentences on each count were ordered to run concurrently.

On July 5, 2022, Chancellor pleaded guilty to the charges. According to investigators, over a three day span in October of 2018, Chancellor willfully and maliciously harmed an infant entrusted to his care, then failed to seek medical treatment for the infant after inflicting severe injuries.  The crime occurred in Wagoner County, within the boundaries of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Honorable Charles B. Goodwin, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearing in Oklahoma City. Chancellor was remanded to 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.

Assistant United States Attorneys Caila M. Cleary and Morgan Muzljakovich represented the United States.