Muskogee Resident Pleads Guilty To Aggravated Sexual Abuse In Indian Country

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jonathan Gage Wiedel, age 19, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to a Superseding Indictment of 12 counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor in Indian Country.

The Superseding Indictment alleged that Wiedel sexually abused four children under the age of 12 while he was employed as a teacher's assistant at St. Joseph Catholic School in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The crimes occurred in Muskogee County, within the boundaries of the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Muskogee County Sheriff's Office.

The Honorable D. Edward Snow, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report. Wiedel will remain in the custody of the United States Marshal Service pending sentencing.

Assistant United States Attorney Jessie K. Pippin represented the United States.