SD Man Sentenced To 20 Years For Raping And Impregnating Relative

A 56-year-old man from Pine Ridge, South Dakota was sentenced in a Rapid City court to two decades after he confessed to raping a relative and impregnating her in the process.

The Rapid City Journal reports that Isadore White Calf was sentenced on January 29 after being convicted of aggravated sexual abuse. The Judge has also ordered that, upon his release, White Calf must spend the rest of his life under supervision.

A signed statement from White Calf confirms that in February of 2017, he forcibly sexually assaulted and impregnated a relative in Pine Ridge. The victim gave birth to a child conceived in the assault the following October.

Robert Perry, assistant special agent in charge of the Rapid City FBI office, described the case as singularly ugly and said the ruling was in line with the egregious crime. "This was an appropriate sentence and an appropriate result in a case that we wish no one would ever deal with," he said.

White Calf was also charged with aggravated sexual abuse for allegedly touching the genitals of a child under the age of 12 in Pine Ridge in 2004. It's unclear if this is the same or different victim than in the 2017 case. This charge was dismissed as part of a plea deal.

Although the conception of a child under such unfortunate circumstances makes this case particularly hard to take, sexual assault and rape is by no means a rare occurrence in South Dakota. Data from the Compass Center indicates that the state leads the nation in these types of crimes, and that, in most cases, the victims know their attackers and don’t want to see that person to go to prison, despite being assaulted.

Law enforcement said that for all the crimes that are actually documented and reported, many more are not.