LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A lady who stated she is among the victims recognized in prices towards Nathan Chasing Horse in Canada shared her story with the 8 Information Now Investigators.
Janessa Lambert stated the “Dances with Wolves” actor sexually assaulted her in her British Columbia residence in 2018 after she had damaged up with him.
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“I just remember feeling like did I ask for it? Did I say that’s what I wanted? What did I do to make that happen?” the 31-year-old lady informed the 8 Information Now Investigators through Zoom. “I just remember feeling disgusted and gross.”
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A lady who stated she is among the victims recognized in prices towards Nathan Chasing Horse in Canada shared her story with the 8 Information Now Investigators. Janessa Lambert stated the “Dances with Wolves” actor sexually assaulted her in her British Columbia residence in 2018 after she had damaged up with him. (KLAS)
Lambert stated she reported the sexual assault to police in 2022 after seeing herself in her boyfriend’s baby. “I just remember looking at her and thinking, do I want her to go through the same thing that I did?” she stated. “I remember taking a deep breath and looking at my boyfriend saying I’m going to police.”
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Much like accounts from different girls and underage ladies who reported Chasing Horse, 48, to police over the previous twenty years, motion was not instantly taken. “It wasn’t promised to me that anything would come of it. I think at the time my Aboriginal police officer was skeptical of the story,” Lambert recalled. “I just remember him looking at me and saying I’ll put this through as a file number but he said I can’t promise anything will happen because he lives in the States, unless he enters Canada, there is nothing we can do. I remember feeling so defeated but happy I did my part.”
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Las Vegas Metro police arrested Chasing Horse at his North Las Vegas residence in January of 2023 after two extra girls informed police Chasing Horse sexually assaulted them, prompting instances like Lambert’s to maneuver ahead.
“I remember of just being in shock and disbelief,” Lambert stated.
Along with the Las Vegas case, there are warrants for Chasing Horse’s arrest in Montana and Canada. A Clark County grand jury indicted Chasing Horse in October for 21 felony prices together with 10 counts of sexual assault with a minor underneath 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 underneath the age of 14 in producing pornography, open or gross lewdness, and first-degree kidnapping of a minor. One cost dates again to 2010, in response to court docket paperwork. Two girls testified in entrance of the grand jury that Nathan Chasing Horse used his standing as a “Medicine Man” within the Native American tradition to victimize them. The 8 Information Now Investigators obtained transcripts from grand jury proceedings, which additionally reveal challenges in speaking with a 3rd alleged sufferer.
Some proof within the case is sealed. Prosecutors stated they’ve obtained not less than two movies of Chasing Horse sexually assaulting a baby.
Lambert stated she first met Chasing Horse when she was 13 years outdated throughout his go to to her neighborhood for ceremonies within the indigenous tradition. She stated he tried to set her up with one among his ‘helpers,’ a a lot older man when she was 16 and he or she refused his advances. Chasing Horse then zeroed in on Lambert, she recalled and had a dialog along with her mom.
“He had said that the grandfathers had made it more clear in his dreams on who would take on that responsibility and that it was me, and that the responsibility of bringing back a medicine man to our nation was gonna fall through me and that I was going to be a wife one day,” Lambert informed the 8 Information Now Investigators.
Chasing Horse had 4 wives on the time, in response to Lambert. She stated there gave the impression to be a contest to be the fifth.
“I think it shows the amount of manipulation,” she stated.
Lambert witnessed Chasing Horse bodily abusing the opposite girls, she informed the 8 Information Now Investigators.
In 2018, after feeling an absence of affection from Chasing Horse, Lambert broke up with him through textual content message. Throughout a go to to her neighborhood after the breakup, she stated Chasing Horse gave her an unwelcome kiss, and throughout the subsequent go to, he sexually assaulted her.
Lambert stated she believed Chasing Horse groomed her.
“People always ask how did we get sucked in. Me and my family are really smart. We’re very caring people. My mom has years of schooling. She has a lot of certificates under her belt. I have my Masters of Education now,” she stated. “But what he really worked at was that cultural yearning. He really exploited that and so I think he looked for families that were really yearning to have that connection.”
Like different girls who’ve reported that Chasing Horse sexually abused them, Lambert is hoping Chasing Horse is held accountable via Nevada’s justice system.
A jury trial is scheduled in Las Vegas for April 14, whereas Chasing Horse’s subsequent court docket look is April 7.
To succeed in investigative reporter Vanessa Murphy, electronic mail vmurphy@8newsnow.com.
