{"id":44351,"date":"2021-10-07T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/towaoc-man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-child-sex-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:18:47","slug":"towaoc-man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-child-sex-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/towaoc-man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-child-sex-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Towaoc man sentenced to 20 years in child sex cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<p>Blair Root House, 63, of Towaoc, has sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse against two children below the age of 12, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Colorado announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The offenses occurred while the children were in his care at his home in Towaoc, a news release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSexual offenses against children create harms that last a lifetime,\u201d said Acting U.S.  Attorney Matt Kirsch. \u201cWhile we can\u2019t undo the harm and pain of these crimes, we have ensured that Mr. House will harm no more children while he is in federal prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn sentenced Blair Root House on Oct. 5, 2021, for one count of aggravated sexual abuse by force in Indian Country and one count of abusive sexual contact of a child in Indian County.  The crimes took place between Jan. 1, 2006, and Dec. 31, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Josh Player handled the prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assaults occurred between 2006 and 2008<\/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":[28,1025,524,144],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-law-and-justice","tag-sexual-assault","tag-towaoc"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44351","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=44351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86056,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44351\/revisions\/86056"}],"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=44351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44351"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}