JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was sentenced Tuesday to 37 1/2 years in prison for the sexual assault and death of a child on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Reservation, federal prosecutors said.
Brett K. Hickman, 28, of Tucker, sexually assaulted and murdered a 2-year-old girl on June 8, 2019, U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and FBI Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby said in a news release. The child lived at Hickman's home in the Tucker community, one of eight on the tribe's land near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Hickman pleaded guilty in federal court on July 13, 2021 to a charge of second-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse of a child before U.S. District Judge David Bramlette, who handed down Tuesday's sentence.
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