Saskatchewan medicine man sentenced to 8 years in prison for sex assaults of women
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SASKATOON — A Saskatchewan man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the sexual assaults of 12 women while under the guise of being an Indigenous medicine man.
Justice John Morrall told a Saskatoon courtroom that it was vile for Cecil Wolfe, 63, to use his position of power as a spiritual healer to violate the women between 2013 and 2021.
Morrall said the women, who lived in Saskatchewan and Alberta, were vulnerable and preyed upon. Their identities are protected by a publication ban.
“The sentence I will impose will seem wholly inadequate for the women. The violations they have experienced will remain with them for the rest of their lives,” the judge told court Wednesday.
“The sense of loss, the breach of trust and loss of faith in themselves and in the community with respect to something that happened to them through absolutely no fault of their own cannot easily be regained.
“A sentence will not bring them back joy or comfort or stability.”
Wolfe pleaded guilty to the assaults in February.
An agreed statement of facts says Wolfe would touch the breasts, buttocks and genitals of the victims during their appointments.
Wolfe would tell the women he was removing “bad medicine” from their bodies and showed them “trinkets” as evidence of his work, including cat claws, hair and snake bones, the document says.
It says the women complied with Wolfe’s requests because he was highly regarded in the community.
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