The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee has announced that Jerry D. Rogers, 61, of Sallisaw, was sentenced to 360 months in prison for aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact, and 180 months in prison for sexual abuse of a minor, all in Indian Country. The sentences will run concurrently.
The charges reportedly arose from investigations conducted by the Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
On April 20, 2022, after a three-day trial, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts on one count of aggravated sexual abuse in Indian Country, three counts of abusive sexual contact in Indian Country, and one count of sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country.
During the trial, the United States presented evidence that over the course of five years, Rogers sexually abused a child under the age of 12 at the time of the crimes. The crimes occurred in Sequoyah County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The Honorable Timothy D. DeGiusti, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearings in Muskogee.
Rogers will remain in custody of U.S. Marshals pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a nonparoleable sentence of incarceration.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin D. Traster represented the United States.
