LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A number of women and girls beforehand reported that Nathan Chasing Horse sexually abused them for practically 20 years, however their experiences didn’t end in legal fees.
Now because the ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor is scheduled to go on trial in reference to alleged abuse towards three girls in a Las Vegas case, two of them once they had been underage, prosecutors need to embody proof from two further girls who reported Chasing Horse sexually abused them as teenagers.
In a movement to confess proof of different crimes filed by the Clark County District Legal professional’s workplace on Dec. 12, prosecutors detailed allegations from the 2 further alleged victims and included police experiences, though it appeared each investigations didn’t end in fees towards Chasing Horse on the time.
“The defendant has groomed young women for at least over two decades and now starting as early as 2002/2003,” prosecutors wrote.
One girl met Chasing Horse when she was 13 or 14 years outdated at a ceremony in Montana and considered him as an uncle, in line with the movement. Chasing Horse instructed her he “wanted more,” the movement acknowledged.
When she was 15 years outdated, Chasing Horse sexually assaulted her and instructed her to not inform anybody, in line with the movement. She believed if she instructed somebody what occurred, unhealthy issues would occur to her household due to Chasing Horse’s place as a ‘Drugs Man,’ the movement acknowledged.
One other girl met Chasing Horse when she was 13 years outdated and in a remedy heart in Montana in 2003, in line with the movement. Chasing Horse had approached her, requested her how outdated she was and requested for her tackle to go to her, the movement acknowledged.
Three months later, Chasing Horse sexually assaulted her at the very least thrice, in line with the movement.
The allegations from each girls are related to the crimes at the moment charged within the Las Vegas case, in line with the district lawyer’s workplace.
“Both incidents reflect another example of defendant using his position in the community to gain access to young children, befriend them and their families, isolate them, and take advantage of them sexually,” the movement acknowledged.
Prosecutors additionally included a report from the North Las Vegas police division from 2015, after one girl, who’s now recognized as a sufferer within the indictment, first got here ahead.
The division closed the case citing that the 19-year-old girl “had come to North Las Vegas of her own free will to meet a male that she said had sexually assaulted her, and because during the sexual incident did not say no, push away, yell or run away, I found that I did not believe it could be prosecuted in court.”
This was regardless of the division studying from the Meade County Sheriff’s workplace in Sturgis, South Dakota that there have been earlier allegations towards Chasing Horse of an identical nature.
“Deputy Bostrom had gotten information that Chasing Horse may have sexually assaulted other females from Canada while at Bear Butte South Dakota” the report acknowledged. “He spoke to Officer Fox of the Tsuu T’ina National Police Department and found that 3 females had reported sexual assault reports against Chasing Horse in Canada.”
The report additionally referred to Chasing Horse’s earlier arrests in 1995 and 1996 in South Dakota for theft, obstructing and eluding police and “priors for not paying child support in Montana.”
Chasing Horse is scheduled to go on trial in Las Vegas on Jan. 13. A Clark County grand jury indicted the “Dances with Wolves” actor in October for 21 felony fees together with 10 counts of sexual assault with a minor below 16 years of age, six counts of sexual assault, two counts of possession of visible presentation depicting sexual conduct of a kid, and one rely every of use of a minor below the age of 14 in producing pornography, open or gross lewdness and first diploma kidnapping of a minor. One cost dates again to 2010, in line with courtroom paperwork.
Prosecutors stated they’ve proof together with video of Chasing Horse sexually assaulting an underage woman. That woman was later thought-about to be one in every of Chasing Horse’s ‘wives,’ and is now an grownup. Makes an attempt to speak to the girl have been unsuccessful as regulation enforcement has been met with hostility from her household, in line with testimony.
Police arrested Chasing Horse at his North Las Vegas dwelling on Jan. 31, 2023.
The Las Vegas case is the primary of a number of to maneuver ahead towards Chasing Horse after Corena Leona-Lacroix, now recognized as a sufferer within the indictment, spoke out.
Leone-Lacroix, who beforehand shared her story with the 8 Information Now Investigators, testified she first met Chasing Horse as a baby and on the age of 14, turned to him to assist remedy her mom’s most cancers. She stated this was when Chasing Horse first sexually assaulted her.
“He said that it’s what the spirits had wanted, that that was the price of helping my mom,” she stated.
Leone-Lacroix stated Chasing Horse repeatedly sexually assaulted her when she was underage. She stated she ultimately moved in with Chasing Horse and have become a ‘spouse.’ She described abuse inside the house.
In 2019, Leone-Lacroix stated she arrange a Tinder profile which Chasing Horse later found. She testified he punished her.
“He had said that since I had wanted to be with other men so badly that he could make that happen and that that could be a way I could repay the betrayal that I had done by serving other men and being a vessel by letting men have sex with me. He said that the rules were though that I was not allowed to see them so I would be wearing a blindfold. I was not allowed to say anything and I was not allowed to move or touch them in return,” she stated. “I was just supposed to lay there and allow it to happen and that would be a way I could pay back my betrayal.”
She testified this occurred a number of instances, each at Las Vegas motels and inside a house.
The second girl, who beforehand got here ahead to North Las Vegas police, testified Chasing Horse sexually assaulted her after which gave her a tablet. She stated she later developed an ectopic being pregnant.
Leone-LaCroix additionally testified she was given a tablet after the primary alleged sexual assault after which Chasing Horse put her on contraception.
Chasing Horse’s followers had been thought-about members of “The Circle.”
Chasing Horse was beforehand charged with 18 counts in Clark County District Court docket in reference to alleged sexual abuse towards two of the three girls within the present case.
The Nevada Supreme Court docket dismissed the earlier indictment in a Sept. 26 order and stated prosecutors mustn’t have outlined “grooming” to the grand jury. Clark County District Legal professional Steve Wolfson instantly instructed the 8 Information Now Investigators that prosecutors would search one other indictment towards Chasing Horse inside weeks and would “follow the dictates” of Nevada’s excessive courtroom. The order allowed prosecutors to retry Chasing Horse.
Chasing Horse faces warrants in Montana and Canada. He has additionally beforehand been banned from a number of reservations. Chasing Horse is a “Rosebud Sioux Indian, Lakota Tribe,” in line with an arrest report.
Chasing Horse was beforehand represented by the Clark County Public Defender’s workplace and not too long ago employed non-public lawyer Craig Mueller.
8 Information Now Investigator Vanessa Murphy will be reached at [email protected].
To contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline, name 1-800-656-4673.
