Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Child Sexual Abuse > FN Girl lied when she accused Chief of CSAM; Life Coach get 9.5 years for CSA and child rape in Queensland

 

Child sex abuse charges stayed against Lake St. Martin chief



Lake St. Martin

Child abuse charges have been stayed against Lake St. Martin Chief Chris Traverse in Winnipeg. Photo: APTN.


The chief of an Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba saw his child abuse trial end last week after the 10-year-old complainant admitted she lied.

Christopher Traverse, 41, had been on leave as chief of Lake St. Martin First Nation since he was arrested in February 2024. He had been free on bail conditions since then.

Traverse had pleaded not guilty to one count each of sexual assault, sexual interference and possessing and creating child pornography.

But on June 13, the complainant confessed she took the photo of herself, and when her mother found out and questioned her about it, she blamed Traverse.

“I got scared,” the girl said under questioning from defence lawyer Candace Olson.

“You were worried you were going to get in trouble? That your mom would yell at you? That she would take the phone away from you?” asked Olson.

“Yeah,” answered the girl who accused Traverse of taking cellphone pictures of her when she was eight-years-old.

“But that wasn’t the truth?” said Olson.

“It wasn’t the truth,” the girl replied.

Read More: Accused chief assaulted at Winnipeg courthouse, says lawyer

The girl told Winnipeg court she had taken a picture of herself when she was using the toilet that was discovered by her mother, who told her not to do it again.

The girl said she first lied by telling her mother the photo was taken “by accident.”

“You did take it on purpose?” Olson asked.

“Yes,” the girl whispered. She then said “Yes” a little more loudly.

The identity of the girl is under a court-ordered publication ban.

The girl explained she knew how to take “selfies” and make videos on a cellphone and was familiar with social media sites like TikTok and YouTube, noting she received her first phone when she was six-years-old.

She said she no longer has a phone but does use a tablet.

Crown attorney Boyd McGill stayed the charges against Traverse halting the two-day trial that began in March. A stay of proceedings means the Crown can reopen the case within 12 months if new evidence comes to light.

Traverse, who had been ejected from First Nations boards and banned from attending group events, did not respond to a request for comment from APTN News on Monday

“I can confirm that the charges against Chief Traverse have been stayed and the matter is concluded,” Olson said in an email to APTN News on Monday.

“We appeared on Friday (June 13) for the continuation of the trial. At that time, the complainant in the matter admitted during her testimony that she had lied about the allegations against Mr. Traverse and they had not happened.”

McGill, the Crown, did not respond to a request for comment.

I'm guessing they'll need a healing circle of some sort in Lac St Martin FN.




Queensland life coach Wolfgang Raven Wildgrace

jailed for years of child sexual abuse, rape


A close-up selfie photo of a man and a woman aged in their 50s.

Wolfgang Wildgrace and Sonya Maria Lindley-Jones were arrested in Far North Queensland in March 2024. (Supplied: Facebook)

In short:

Wolfgang Raven Wildgrace and his then-partner Sonya Maria Lindley-Jones have pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse offences.

Wildgrace, a disgraced life coach who was linked to the controversial 2018 Adelaide Crows pre-season camp, has been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years behind bars.

What's next?

Wildgrace must serve at least half his sentence before being eligible for parole.

A Queensland man who once touted himself as a life coach and therapist, has been sentenced to almost a decade behind bars for rape and child sexual abuse. 

One of Wolfgang Raven Wildgrace's claims was that he helped people "manage their emotions effectively".

It was this reputation that led him to his involvement with an AFL pre-season camp for the Adelaide Crows in 2018 that became notorious for being "psychologically stressful" and offensive to Indigenous players.

But in the years before, he psychologically manipulated two children and sexually abused them.

Wildgrace was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years behind bars at the District Court in Cairns today after pleading guilty to a raft of offences.

They include two counts of rape, two counts of repeated sexual conduct with a child, and more than 30 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16.

A man with long hair tied back, and wearing a suit.

Wolfgang Wildgrace was involved with a highly publicised pre-season training camp with AFL club Adelaide in 2018. (Supplied: Facebook)

The court heard Wildgrace, now 59, committed the offences over eight years from about late 2009 until 2017.

The abuse escalated to occurring on an almost weekly basis, the court heard, with victims made to believe the acts were "sexual training".

Wildgrace's former partner Sonya Maria Lindley-Jones, 52, also pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12.

Her charges related to an incident in which the couple performed a sex act in the presence of children.

A concern was first raised with police in 2015, but the victims did not disclose the abuse when they were questioned.

A woman and a man standing together.

Sonya Maria Lindley-Jones and Wolfgang Wildgrace have been convicted of child sex offences. (Supplied: Facebook)

Almost a decade later, in early 2024, Wildgrace disclosed the offending to a friend after learning a report was to be made to police.

But after a meeting was called to discuss the offending, he and Lindley-Jones suddenly disappeared from their south-east Queensland home, leaving their bank accounts untouched.

The pair was arrested and charged in March last year, having been found in the far north Queensland town of Kuranda.

'Twisted' therapy

Wildgrace and Lindley-Jones' victims addressed them directly in court, reading out statements in which they detailed how the "twisted sort of therapy" shattered them psychologically.

"You knew the moment you met me that I had no-one to look out for me, to protect me," one victim told Wildgrace.

Another told the court she needed regular therapy to recover from what she had endured.

She said the fact that Wildgrace and Lindley-Jones ran a therapy business themselves had "shattered the trust a person should be able to place in a healthcare professional".

"I hope an unrelenting spotlight follows him for the rest of his days, stripping him of any privacy, comfort or escape, just as he stripped me of mine."
Exterior of Cairns Courthouse building.

Wildgrace and Lindley-Jones were sentenced at the District Court in Cairns. (ABC News: Brendan Mounter)

'Warped' state of mind

Defence counsel Aaron Dunkerton, representing Wildgrace, said his client was sorry, had suffered abuse as a child, and had PTSD symptoms from a siege in the 1990s when he was held hostage by a gunman.

From 2011, Wildgrace had been drinking heavily and he had also used cannabis and mushrooms, which caused his sense of reality to "become quite warped", Mr Dunkerton said.

Rachelle Logan, acting for Lindley-Jones, said her client was "genuinely remorseful" and had only since understood she was controlled by Wildgrace in their relationship.

Neither Wildgrace nor Lindley-Jones had any criminal history.

In sentencing, Judge Anthony Rafter SC said the offending was serious and involved a "grave breach of trust".

Wildgrace will be eligible for parole at the end of 2028.

Lindley-Jones was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' jail, but the remainder of her sentence is suspended, having already served 14 months. She will be subject to three years' probation on release.



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