{"id":30672,"date":"2023-11-14T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/reservation-man-accused-in-church-service-sex-assault\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:23:35","slug":"reservation-man-accused-in-church-service-sex-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/reservation-man-accused-in-church-service-sex-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Reservation man accused in church service sex assault"},"content":{"rendered":"75-year-old enters plea agreement in federal court\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9979376-946f-5ebb-8d1a-f74954de5466&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"700\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Pine Hill man has admitted to sexually assaulting a child at a church service on the Navajo Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Jake Jr., 75, pleaded guilty Nov. 13 to a charge of abusive sexual contact while in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that on May 28, 2022 a 7-year-old girl told her mother \u201cshe had been sexually assaulted by a man she did not know during a church service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agents from the Farmington Resident Agency of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office responded and began interviewing individuals who say the child that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne witness reported that they had noticed (the child) was not with the other children and when they went to find her, they found her with Jake and that (the child) was visibly upset,\u201d according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>In the plea agreement, \u201cJake admitted that he had approached (the child), that he touched her inappropriately and that she was upset by his conduct,\u201d a news release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office states.<\/p>\n<p>Jake is not being held in jail, while awaiting sentencing, and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office says he faces up to life in prison, followed by five years of parole.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Bell is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>75-year-old enters plea agreement in federal court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81156,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30672\/revisions\/81156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30672"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}