Left Hand Bull, Failing to Register as a Sex Offender, South Dakota 2024

A Rapid City man has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender, announced United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell.

RAPID CITY – On November 18, 2024, U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler sentenced Patrick Left Hand Bull, age 51, to 27 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.

A federal grand jury indicted Left Hand Bull in June 2024. He pleaded guilty on August 28, 2024.

Left Hand Bull is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act as a result of a federal felony conviction in February 2014 for Abusive Sexual Contact.

On March 11, 2024, he updated his sex offender registry address to the Cornerstone Rescue Mission in Rapid City. Left Hand Bull resided there intermittently between March 11, 2024, and April 23, 2024.

Between April 27, 2024, and May 8, 2024, he did not live at the Cornerstone Rescue Mission and did not register or update his new address with the sex offender registry. Left Hand Bull knew of his requirement to register and knowingly failed to do so.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the federal government.

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