U.S. Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell | U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell | U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange of the U.S. District Court has sentenced a Fort Thompson, South Dakota man, convicted of abusive sexual contact of a child by force. The sentencing occurred on June 10, 2024.
Earlwyn Makes Room For Them, aged 28, received a sentence of 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
Makes Room For Them was indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2023 and pleaded guilty in May 2024. In 2014, he repeatedly abused a young girl living in the same home within the Crow Creek Reservation in Fort Thompson. The victim, under age 12 at the time, was forced to touch his genitalia and had her groin touched by him.
The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office under the Major Crimes Act, which requires certain violent crimes occurring in Indian Country to be prosecuted in federal court rather than state court.
The FBI conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Troy R. Morley prosecuted the case. Following sentencing, Makes Room For Them was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
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