Shiprock man gets time in sexual abuse case
ALBUQUERQUE
Henderson Shorty, 53, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on an abusive sexual contact charge.
Shorty will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
Shorty was arrested in February 2016 on an indictment charging him with abusive sexual contact. The indictment charged Shorty with sexually abusing a child under the age of 12 years on Jan. 24, 2013, in Indian Country in McKinley County, New Mexico.
On July 1, Shorty pled guilty to an abusive sexual contact charge in a felony information. In entering the guilty plea, Shorty admitted that from Jan. 1, 2013 through March 31, 2013, he had sexual contact with a child under the age of 12. Shorty admitted committing the crime on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
This case was investigated by the Farmington office of the FBI. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Elaine Y. Ramirez as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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