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Published June 14, 2011, 10:25 AM

Notorious sex offender sentenced for new crime

The first person to be prosecuted in federal court in North Dakota for failing to register as a sex offender has been sentenced for another sex crime.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The first person to be prosecuted in federal court in North Dakota for failing to register as a sex offender has been sentenced for another sex crime.

U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says 35-year-old Gerard LoveJoy Sr. of Tokio was sentenced to a total of 40 years in prison and about $1,200 in restitution in a case in which authorities say he had sex with a juvenile who was sleeping in a Fort Yates home last September. LoveJoy pleaded guilty in March.

LoveJoy also has a 1997 sex crime conviction. In January 2008, he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for failing to register as a sex offender. Prosecutors said it was the first such case brought in federal court in North Dakota.

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