Daychild sentenced to five years for assault on minor

A Hill County man who pleaded guilty to assault on a minor has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Elliot Q. Daychild, born in 1986, was sentenced Monday in state District Court by Judge Dan Boucher.

According to the charging document, Havre Police Department received a call from Northern Montana Hospital Dec. 12, 2013, at 6:52 a.m. reporting that a sexual assault may have occurred. A medical practitioner who later conducted an examination reported that she found indications that a 5-year-old boy had been sexually abused.

Officers responding to the hospital saw that the boy’s father’s face appeared to be swollen on the left side, as if he had been struck.

The father told officers that Daychild had been coming to his home for dinner from time to time, and the two drank vodka that Daychild brought over the day of the incident.

The man told the officers that Daychild had “sucker punched” him and that he did not remember what happened until his son woke him and his wife to say Daychild had done “stuff” to him that “ain’t right,” the document says.

Daychild was originally charged with sexual intercourse without consent or, in the alternative, attempted sexual intercourse without consent in December 2013, however, in December 2014, the charges were amended to assault on a minor.

The charging document goes on to say that Daychild has a prior federal conviction for aggravated sexual assault. Additionally, Daychild entered into a five-year deferred prosecution agreement on a June 2010 charge in state District Court that accused him of sexual assault on a 3-year-old and has several misdemeanor convictions, including partner/family member assault, theft and disorderly conduct.

Daychild will be given credit for the 479 days he has already served in the Hill County Detention Center.