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Ghostbear gets 5 years for raping 7-year-old girl

A man who was convicted in 2012 of raping a 7-year-old multiple times in the basement of a Havre church was sentenced Monday afternoon to five years with the Montana State Prison.

District Judge Daniel Boucher sentenced Edward Harold Ghostbear, born in 1977, to 15 years at Montana State Prison, with all but five years suspended and credit for 160 days already served.

Ghostbear's public defender, Travis Cushman, said his client will appeal the guilty conviction.

Ghostbear was sentenced on a misdemeanor charge in January of 2014 after Boucher agreed that the prosecution failed to properl...

 

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