A federal judge sentenced a Montana man to over two decades in prison for drugging and raping Indigenous girls and women.

James Kirby King, originally from Hays, plied multiple underage girls, most of them within the Fort Belknap Indian Community, with drugs or alcohol before sexually abusing them. While King maintained his innocence through his sentencing last week, multiple survivors testified in court to his campaign of abuse that spanned several years. Through the course of his indictment through his sentencing, King was convicted of raping five people, the majority of whom were underage when the abuse began.

Through the course of the investigation into King, federal prosecutors wrote in documents filed in U.S. District Court that there was evidence that King sexually abused at least

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