LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A number of women and girls beforehand reported that Nathan Chasing Horse sexually abused them for practically twenty years, however their experiences didn’t lead to felony prices.
Now because the ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor is scheduled to go on trial in reference to alleged abuse in opposition to three ladies in a Las Vegas case, two of them once they have been underage, prosecutors need to embrace proof from two extra ladies who reported Chasing Horse sexually abused them as teenagers.
In a movement to confess proof of different crimes filed by the Clark County District Lawyer’s workplace on Dec. 12, prosecutors detailed allegations from the 2 extra alleged victims and included police experiences, though it appeared each investigations didn’t lead to prices in opposition to 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 previous at a ceremony in Montana and considered him as an uncle, based on the movement. Chasing Horse instructed her he “wanted more,” the movement acknowledged.
When she was 15 years previous, Chasing Horse sexually assaulted her and instructed her to not inform anybody, based on the movement. She believed if she instructed somebody what occurred, dangerous 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 previous and in a remedy middle in Montana in 2003, based on the movement. Chasing Horse had approached her, requested her how previous she was and requested for her handle to go to her, the movement acknowledged.
Three months later, Chasing Horse sexually assaulted her no less than thrice, based on the movement.
The allegations from each ladies are related to the crimes presently charged within the Las Vegas case, based on 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 in opposition to Chasing Horse of the same 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 prices 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, based on court docket 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 considered one of Chasing Horse’s ‘wives,’ and is now an grownup. Makes an attempt to speak to the lady have been unsuccessful as legislation enforcement has been met with hostility from her household, based on testimony.
Police arrested Chasing Horse at his North Las Vegas house on Jan. 31, 2023.
The Las Vegas case is the primary of a number of to maneuver ahead in opposition to 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 toddler and on the age of 14, turned to him to assist treatment 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 accommodations 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 have been thought-about members of “The Circle.”
Chasing Horse was beforehand charged with 18 counts in Clark County District Courtroom in reference to alleged sexual abuse in opposition to two of the three ladies within the present case.
The Nevada Supreme Courtroom dismissed the earlier indictment in a Sept. 26 order and stated prosecutors shouldn’t have outlined “grooming” to the grand jury. Clark County District Lawyer Steve Wolfson instantly instructed the 8 Information Now Investigators that prosecutors would search one other indictment in opposition to Chasing Horse inside weeks and would “follow the dictates” of Nevada’s excessive court docket. 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,” based on an arrest report.
Chasing Horse was beforehand represented by the Clark County Public Defender’s workplace and lately employed personal lawyer Craig Mueller.
8 Information Now Investigator Vanessa Murphy may be reached at vmurphy@8newsnow.com.
To contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline, name 1-800-656-4673.
