Twenty-seven months after the brutal abuse and killing of two young siblings at their home on the Spirit Lake Sioux Indian reservation, Valentino “Tino” James Bagola goes on trial in U.S. District Court in Fargo today facing four felony counts of murder.The violent deaths of two of its youngest and most vulnerable members traumatized the Spirit Lake Nation and fueled allegations from within and without that the tribe faced an epidemic of child abuse and had systematically failed to deal with the crisis.
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