SEATTLE, Wash. – A Lummi Nation man will spend 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Seattle says a federal judge sentenced 57-year-old Lewis Dean Armstrong to the mandatory minimum sentence.
Armstrong was tried and convicted in 2014 of the aggravated sexual abuse of a 6-year-old child at her father’s home on the Lummi Reservation.
The judge sentenced him to 20 years at that time, saying the mandatory minimum was unconstitutional.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and threw out the shorter sentence in 2020 and a different judge imposed the longer term.