Posted on 08/29/2020 3:19:27 PM PDT by ransomnote
United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of First Degree Murder and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on August 21, 2020, by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
Zachariah Michael Poor Bear, age 26, was sentenced to life in federal prison and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund as to the First Degree Murder charge. Poor Bear was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, to be served concurrently to the murder charge, and was ordered to pay another $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund for the Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury charge.
The conviction stemmed from Poor Bear killing a 19 month-old baby by inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and abdomen in May 2015 at Pine Ridge. Poor Bear was found guilty at trial.
“The murder of a child is incomprehensible,” said U.S. Attorney Parsons. “We mourn the loss of this precious little girl and pray that the justice represented by this life sentence will bring some measure of rest to her family.”
“This crime was gut-wrenching and there is no question the sentencing is just,” said FBI Minneapolis Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Bob Perry. “The FBI is responsible for investigating the most serious crimes in Indian Country and along with our law enforcement partners, we will continue to aggressively pursue these cases. The FBI is committed to protecting all of the tribal communities we serve, helping victims, and ensuring that justice is met for violent offenders.”
The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sarah B. Collins and Eric Kelderman prosecuted the case.
Poor Bear was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
On a side note, notice how every federal execution this year involved the murder of children?
Poor Bear will not be welcome, better ask for solitary.
Would love to see some of those abortion doctors stretched out on the gurney waiting for their injection.
It's hard to differentiate a person who murders purposely but our sick society has done that.
Was this the case of ‘Mommy’s New Boyfriend’ murdering one of her offspring that wasn’t his?
It usually is. Animals are gonna act like animals. :(
Special Agent Perry's idea of "justice" and mine are quite different.
One of the left’s most telling blows against the United States was the crippling of the death penalty.
This murderer should already be dead.
I read of a recent murder of a child in Canada where the killer was sentenced to some ridiculous short time, between two and eight years maybe. The killer and the child were both native; the tribe wanted the short sentence; he was drunk and no doubt abused as a child.
At some point if you want to end the cycle of abuse, you have to put the abusers away. Same with the missing native women - if you want to find their killers you will be locking up native men.
Thank you for the link.
This part caught my eye:
“Poor Bear said U.S. federal prosecutors and the FBI handled his case improperly, abused their power against a Native American man and did not seek out the truth.”
He is a horrible excuse for a human being, but Mommy left the child in his care while she went off to smoke dope for an afternoon and evening. SMH.
I don’t usually bother with these type stories, but same caught my eye. I’m the mother of a MURDERED CHILD, 99% are guilty, but victims get the shaft.
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