Sturgis man sentenced to federal prison for child porn

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) -- A Sturgis man has been sentenced to federal prison following a conviction of Receipt of Child Pornography.

Jeffery Dean Sipe, 31, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of
supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.

Sipe will also be required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and
Notification Act.

In November of 2023, a federal grand jury indicted Sipe for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor,
Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet, and Receipt of Child Pornography. He pleaded guilty on May 3, 2024.

In May of 2022, a local minor reported that Sipe had solicited images of child pornography from her and had forcibly raped her when she was between the ages of 15 to 17. Law enforcement found sexually explicit messages from Sipe in his Snapchat account which directed the victim to pose in certain ways and send him sexually explicit images of her. Multiple sexually explicit images of the minor were located on Sipe’s electronic devices.

Sipe was immediately remanded to...