{"id":102492,"date":"2017-12-10T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-seeks-potential-sex-abuse-victims-on-reservation\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:52:13","slug":"fbi-seeks-potential-sex-abuse-victims-on-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-seeks-potential-sex-abuse-victims-on-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI seeks potential sex abuse victims on reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fydel Jones pleaded not guilty to several charges of abusive sexual contact and theft in October. He\u2019s scheduled to go on trial next year.<\/p>\n

According to the FBI, Jones offered to conduct a sweat lodge ceremony for a Canadian tourist and her friends in May when they traveled to the Havasupai reservation for a wedding ceremony. Once in a small mud hut, authorities say Jones sexually assaulted a woman by intentionally touching her directly and over her clothing without permission.<\/p>\n

Jones, who lives in the small reservation village of Supai, performed two separate ceremonies for members of the wedding party, the FBI said. The agency said it has received reports that others might have been victimized under similar circumstances as far back as 2002, said FBI Special Agent Brian Fuller. He declined to elaborate but said the agency is mandated to identify victims and provide them resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause they were international tourists, we know a lot of people travel down to Havasupai, that\u2019s why we put out the broad request,\u201d he told the AP.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 attorney, John Trebon, declined to talk about the criminal case Friday but said he\u2019s surprised the federal government is \u201ctrolling for victims\u201d and did not notify him about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a dangerous practice,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if they\u2019re offering some sort of economic incentive to these people. My fear is that it could procure false claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI has a questionnaire on its website for potential victims and notes they could be contacted by the agency for more information.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people from around the world visit the Havasupai reservation deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon each year, either by hiking down a rugged 8-mile trail, by helicopter or mule. No roads reach the reservation, which is home to about 650 people.<\/p>\n

Jones has been released from custody but is under court order not to contact tourists or conduct sweat lodge ceremonies for anyone but his own family, according to court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonesdu1-i-syn Fydel Jones pleaded not guilty to several charges of abusive sexual contact and theft in October. He\u2019s scheduled to go on trial next year. According to the FBI, Jones offered to conduct a sweat lodge ceremony for a Canadian tourist and her friends in May when they traveled to the Havasupai reservation for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[5450,13,1655,524],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-flagstaff","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-navajo-nation","tag-sexual-assault"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102492"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}