{"id":27570,"date":"2024-05-20T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T05:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/window-rock-medicine-man-faces-three-years-in-federal-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:05:12","slug":"window-rock-medicine-man-faces-three-years-in-federal-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/window-rock-medicine-man-faces-three-years-in-federal-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Window Rock medicine man faces three years in federal prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9979376-946f-5ebb-8d1a-f74954de5466&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"700\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Window Rock man was sentenced to three years in federal prison on sex crime charges.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Tso, 85, entered a plea agreement admitting to sexually abusing a woman 20 years ago when she was between the ages of 15 and 17 and was sleeping at Tso\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>The woman \u201cstated that she woke up to find\u00a0Tso\u2019s hand inside her pants. She kicked him away, locked herself in the bathroom, and he tried to unlock the door to get to her before leaving,\u201d according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Tso, a Navajo medicine man and Native American Church Road Man, told the FBI that he touched the women \u201cinappropriately,\u201d and \u201che claimed that she had initiated sexual contact,\u201d according to the FBI interview.<\/p>\n<p>The woman reportedly told authorities she waited to report the incident out of fear, but then decided she should tell because, \u201cthere are children\/women still in his reach\u201d as a medicine man and road man, the news release stated.<\/p>\n<p>Tso will be required to register as a sex offender and must serve five years of supervised release once out of prison.<\/p>\n<p>This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Flores 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, the release stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He admits to 20-year-old sex crime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-27570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27570","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=27570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80109,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27570\/revisions\/80109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27570"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=27570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}