Dances with Wolves star Nathan Chasing Horse’s alleged victims reveal chilling new particulars and name for brand spanking new indictment after Nevada Supreme Courtroom dismissed case

One of many alleged intercourse assault victims of former little one star Nathan Chasing Horse is revealing particulars and demanding a brand new indictment after Nevada’s Supreme Courtroom dismissed his case.

The star of 1990 Oscar-winner Dances With Wolves, the 48-year-old Chasing Horse had costs dismissed final week, nevertheless the courtroom left open the potential of refiling in a case that led to extra prison costs within the U.S. and Canada.

Kristy Holston, the chief deputy public defender representing Chasing Horse, efficiently argued {that a} definition of grooming introduced to the grand jury with out skilled testimony tainted the state´s case.

Ren Leone-LaCroix, who says Chasing Horse started assaulting her from the age of simply 14, finally grew to become a ‘religious spouse’ and have become pregnant together with his little one earlier than leaving, is undeterred and can combat to get a trial. 

‘It took me a very long time to comprehend the complete extent of what he took from me,’ she mentioned. ‘He took my complete life, every part I ever knew. And I would like that for him.’ 

Leone-LaCroix – a Lakota Sioux – first met Chasing Horse after she was adopted and raised in a white family and needed to entry her native roots. 

She met the actor and religious chief in December of 2005, when Leone-LaCroix was seven.  

‘I bear in mind, like, pondering he was some of the lovely individuals I would ever seen. He had a method of similar to swallowing the vitality wherever he was,’ she informed ABC Information.

Leone-LaCroix and her mom Melissa Leone finally joined ‘The Circle,’ Chasing Horse’s group, which required massive money funds for membership of $15,000-$20,000 a yr.

‘It was just like the lights being turned on in a darkish room,’ Melissa Leone mentioned. ‘It felt so open. It felt so loving.’

When Leone was identified with most cancers in 2012, a 14-year-old Leone-LaCroix was known as to go to Chasing Horse’s house in Las Vegas and led her right into a closet for a ‘therapeutic ceremony’ for her mom. 

‘He mentioned that it might value me my virginity, I had tried saying no at first, and he mentioned that if I did not, that my mother would die and he or she would not get assist,’ Leone-LaCroix mentioned . 

Chasing Horse allegedly raped her ‘shortly after that.’ 

‘He mentioned that it was a sacred promise between him, me and the spirits and that if I informed them, my mother would get sick once more.’

Attorneys for Chasing Horse declare that Leone-LaCroix consented to intercourse with him ‘in a transactional method’ to assist heal Leone and ‘didn’t testify that she informed Nathan no.’ 

‘Makes me really feel just like the worst mom on the planet,’ mentioned Leone, who finally recovered however had no thought of what he’d accomplished to her daugher. ‘Prefer it’s unforgivable. And the way she held that for therefore lengthy.’

When she turned 16, Leone-LaCroix was requested to turn into considered one of Chasing Horse’s ‘religious wives,’ of which he’d have seven at a time.

‘He had informed us that it was like conventional for holy males to have a number of wives as a result of they — drugs males — wanted extra assist than most individuals,’ Leone-LaCroix mentioned. ‘And in order that’s why he wanted extra love and extra care.’ 

She finally informed her mom that she needed to be considered one of them.

‘I checked out it as an honor. When she informed me that she liked him, that was sufficient,’ Leone mentioned.

Leone-LaCroix mentioned Chasing Horse would typically turn into violent and attempt to play every of the wives in opposition to one another. 

A male member of the group, Fernando Trujillo, says he by no means noticed any intercourse abuse however mentioned that the wives have been pressured to put on bells in order that they may very well be heard and males have been informed that they’d go blind in the event that they checked out them. 

Leone-LaCroix mentioned the abuse grew to become nearly ritualistic. 

‘He had choked me and like slammed my head on the bottom to the purpose the place I had been out for 3 days. I used to be by no means allowed to go to the hospital for any of my accidents. If the bruises began to fade, he at all times made extra,’ she mentioned.

She lastly left after discovering she’d turn into pregnant on the age of 23 in 2021. 

‘Realizing I am simply as unsafe and I am simply as unloved and I am simply as unprotected,’ she mentioned. ‘Like, why do not I worth myself extra? That was intense.’

Proceedings within the 18-count prison case have been at a standstill for greater than a yr whereas the previous ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor challenged it.

The total seven-member courtroom´s choice, issued Thursday, reverses earlier rulings upholding the costs by a three-member panel of the excessive courtroom and a state choose.

Holston mentioned prosecutors additionally failed to supply the grand jury with proof that might have solid a doubt on the allegations in opposition to Chasing Horse, together with what she described as inconsistent statements made by one of many victims.

The excessive courtroom agreed.

‘The mixture of those two clear errors undermines our confidence within the grand jury proceedings and created insupportable injury to the unbiased operate of the grand jury course of,’ the courtroom mentioned in its scathing order.

The ruling directs the choose overseeing the case in Clark County District Courtroom to dismiss the indictment with out prejudice, that means costs in opposition to Chasing Horse may be refiled. 

However the order for dismissal gained´t take impact instantly, as prosecutors even have the choice to ask the excessive courtroom to rethink inside 25 days.

‘The allegations in opposition to Chasing Horse are indisputably critical, and we categorical no opinion about Chasing Horse´s guilt or innocence,’ the order says.

Holston declined to remark. District Legal professional Steve Wolfson, in an announcement Thursday, described the courtroom’s choice as ‘solely a minor setback.’

‘My workplace is dedicated to resurrecting the costs on this case,’ Wolfson mentioned, ‘and we is not going to relaxation till we receive justice on behalf of the victims on this matter.’

Chasing Horse is charged with sexual assault of a minor, kidnapping and little one abuse. He has pleaded not responsible.

The 48-year-old has been in custody since his arrest final January close to the North Las Vegas house he’s mentioned to have shared with 5 wives. 

He’s unlikely to be launched from custody, even after the excessive courtroom’s choice, as a result of he faces costs in no less than 4 different jurisdictions , together with U.S. District Courtroom in Nevada and on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana.

Chasing Horse is greatest recognized for portraying Smiles A Lot within the 1990 movie ‘Dances with Wolves.’ 

However within the many years since starring within the Oscar-winning film, authorities mentioned, he constructed a fame as a self-proclaimed drugs man amongst tribes and traveled round North America to carry out therapeutic ceremonies.

He’s accused of utilizing that place to achieve entry to susceptible women and girls beginning within the early 2000s, main a cult and taking underage wives. 

Authorities have mentioned one of many wives was provided to Chasing Horse as a ‘present’ when she was 15, whereas one other ‘grew to become a spouse’ after turning 16.

Chasing Horse is also accused of recording sexual assaults and arranging intercourse with the victims for different males who allegedly paid him.

His authorized points have been unfolding on the similar time lawmakers and prosecutors across the U.S. are funneling extra sources into circumstances involving Native girls, together with human trafficking and murders. 

Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is house to the Sicangu Sioux, one of many seven tribes of the Lakota nation.