Don't Mix sentenced to more than five years for sexual abuse

A Crow Agency man convicted by a federal jury of sexually abusing two girls on the Crow Indian Reservation was sentenced Thursday, April 18 to five years and three months in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said in a press release.

After a two-day trial, the jury on Dec. 12, 2023, found Edwin Ivan Don’t Mix, 60, guilty of abusive sexual contact of a child and abusive sexual contact of a minor.

U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters presided over the case.

In court documents and at trial, the government alleged that in January 2015, Jane Doe 2 disclosed to the FBI that Don’t Mix touched her vaginal area over her clothes while she was sledding. Jane Doe 2 was 13 years old at the time. Jane Doe 2 also disclosed in the same interview, that in 2012 or 2013, she was asleep and awoke to Don’t Mix touching her vaginal area over her clothes. The touching occurred at a Crow Agency residence.

In October 2021, another child, Jane Doe 1, disclosed to a school counselor that Don’t Mix touched her vaginal area over her clothes when she was either 6, 7 or 8 years old and that the touching happened three or four times at a Crow Agency residence.