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Non-Indian Man Residing on Laguna Pueblo Sentenced for Federal Child Abuse Conviction

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Aris Jaramillo, 36, a non-Indian man residing in the Village of Encinal, in the Pueblo of Laguna, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to one year of probation for his conviction on a child abuse charge.

Jaramillo was arrested in Aug. 2017, on a criminal complaint charging him with child abuse on Aug. 13, 2017, on the Laguna Pueblo in Cibola County, N.M.  According to the complaint, Jaramillo struck a Laguna Pueblo child on the head repeatedly.

On March 27, 2018, Jaramillo pled guilty to an information charging him with child abuse.  In entering the guilty plea, Jaramillo admitted that on Aug. 13, 2017, he became upset and hit the victim several times in the head and left red marks on the victim’s head. 

This case was investigated by the Laguna/Acoma Agency of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services and the Laguna Pueblo Tribal Police Department and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Marshall.

Updated September 6, 2018

Topic
Indian Country Law and Justice