Minnesota Man Sentenced to More Than 100 Years in Prison for Repeated Sexual Assaults

(KNSI) – A Chippewa County court has sentenced a man to 106 years in prison for multiple violent sexual assaults against a victim who was treated with particular cruelty and was at times vulnerable.

Jacory Dante McCalpin was convicted on April 27th of all 27 charges he faced, including multiple counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and stalking. Jurors also found aggravating facts on 21 of the 27 counts.

Prosecutors say the 43-year-old sexually and physically assaulted the victim over two and a half years between July 2022 and December 2023. He regularly recorded the assaults and used the videos as blackmail to force the victim to perform additional sex acts.

Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office prosecuted the case after a referral from Chippewa County Attorney Matthew Haugen, which allows the attorney general to appear in criminal cases at a county attorney’s request.

Ellison weighed in after the sentence came down. “The cruelty and inhumanity of McCalpin’s criminal conduct is horrifying,” Ellison said. “I spent years working to expand my office’s Criminal Division, so we would have the resources to prosecute cases like this and hold people like McCalpin accountable for inflicting so much harm on their fellow Minnesotans. I’m praying the victim in this case is receiving the help, care, and support needed to heal after such traumatic events.”

The Montevideo Police Department investigated the crime with assistance from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

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