Holmberg Sexually Exploited Others Witnesses Say in Court

The Quentin Burdick federal courthouse in Fargo.  (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

(By: Jeff Beach and Amy Dalrymple . North Dakota Monitor) – Former state Sen. Ray Holmberg seeking out young men for sexual exploitation is “not recent, nor isolated,” someone who said he’d been victimized by the North Dakota legislator told the court at a sentencing hearing Wednesday.

A lawmaker for 45 years, Holmberg also worked as an educator and student counselor at Grand Forks Central High. He pleaded guilty last year to traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and prosecutors say he left the United States to seek sexual contact with minors numerous times.

Witnesses said in court Wednesday that his abuses weren’t relegated to trips overseas.

They spoke before Holmberg was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

One person said that he met Holmberg while he was in high school in the 1990s, and Holmberg became a trusted adviser. Holmberg eventually paid him to make sexual videos of himself.

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