U.S. Attorney Jesse A. Laslovich | U.S. Department of Justice
A Browning man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for sexually abusing a child and sending obscene material to minors. The sentence was handed down by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, according to U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich.
The defendant, Treston Lane Kickingwoman, aged 29, entered a guilty plea in September 2024 to charges including one count of abusive sexual contact and two counts of transferring obscene material to a minor.
Court documents revealed that the abuse occurred on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. In 2022, Jane Doe 1 reported to law enforcement that Kickingwoman had sexually abused her when she was approximately six years old, around 2014 or 2015. The incident took place while they were at a house in Browning.
In March 2024, an FBI online covert employee posed as a juvenile on Facebook and began communicating with Kickingwoman. He sent explicit images and videos of himself and solicited similar content from the persona. A search of his Facebook account showed he had sent nude images to multiple accounts, including those belonging to Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3—juvenile girls residing on the Blackfeet Reservation.
Both girls confirmed their interactions with Kickingwoman during interviews with law enforcement. They stated that they communicated with him on Facebook Messenger in the summer of 2023 when they were both 12 years old but told him they were 13. Kickingwoman sent them explicit images and requested similar photos from them, which Jane Doe 2 provided through his Facebook account.
The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with the investigation conducted by the FBI.
