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Sioux Falls Man Sentenced for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota

SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. The sentencing took place on July 17, 2023.

Robert Charles Black Cloud, age 68, was sentenced to time served, five years of supervised release, and a special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund in the amount of $100.

Black Cloud was indicted by a federal grand jury in November of 2022. He pleaded guilty on June 13, 2023.

The conviction stems from Black Cloud failing to register as a sex offender as required by federal law between May 29, 2022, and November 1, 2022. Black Cloud had previously been convicted of a sex offense in federal court, which requires him to register for the rest of his life.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Clapper prosecuted the case.

Updated July 19, 2023