CEDAR RAPIDS
A federal judge on Monday sentenced Damon Whitebreast, 22, of Montour, Iowa to 10 years in prison for repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl, according to authorities.
Whitebreast plead guilty in November to two counts of sex abuse of a minor.
Court evidence indicated that Whitebreast had sexual intercourse with a thirteen-year-old child. When the police came to look for the child at his residence, Whitebreast hid the child from officers. After pleading guilty, and while housed at the Linn County jail, Whitebreast assaulted another inmate causing injuries and bruising.
The Meskwaki Nation Police Department received a report from her family that she was missing in June 2019. The family then received a tip the 13-year-old may be at Whitebreast’s home on the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi settlement near Tama, according to the Gazette newspaper.
U.S. District Court Judge C.J. Williams. also fined Whitebreast $30,000. He must also serve a five-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
During the sentencing, Judge Williams found that this was a “crime of violence that caused incalculable harm to a thirteen-year-old” victim.