Kevin Murphy, Leader Correspondent
A Keshena man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Green Bay to 11 years and three months in prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl last summer.
Jacob J. Zhuckkahosee, 20, was sentenced at the top of the advisory federal guidelines because of the age of the victim, a prior sexual assault conviction as a juvenile, and his need for substance abuse and sex offender treatment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Whittemore said.
According to the criminal complaint:
Between June 15 and July 17, Zhuckkahosee went to a friend’s residence on the Menominee Indian Reservation on the day of the assault and got high on synthetic marijuana. The friend left but the girl victim came over and sat next to Zhuckkahosee.
No one else was present when Zhuckkahosee made sexual contact with the girl. The girl began to cry and Zhuckkahosee stopped and told her to go home.
The girl’s mother told reservation police on July 17 that her daughter complained about being sexually abused by Zhuckkahosee.
During a July 23 interview at the Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center in Green Bay, the girl told staff that Zhuckkahosee took off her clothes except her underwear before making the sexual contact.
Zhuckkahosee told the FBI that he was sorry for what he did and wanted to get treatment or counseling. He entered a guilty plea on Oct. 15 to a federal indictment charging him with the sexual abuse of a person under the age of 16 years.
Zhuckkahosee’s attorney, Thomas Phillip, sought a sentence near the bottom of the 108- to 135-month guideline range. District Judge William Greisbach considered Zhuckkahosee’s early guilty plea to the charge, his expressed remorse and desire to get counseling but still sentenced him at the top of the guideline range, Whittemore said Thursday.
Zhuckkahosee has been in custody since being charged on Aug. 19. He will be assigned to a federal prison soon.