In January 2023, after reading a newspaper article exposing child-pornography and CSA within the fellowship, a woman (born & raised in the fellowship) came forward and disclosed her own experience of sexual assaults that occurred in both Terrace BC and Delta BC when she was a minor.
In May 2023 a victim statement was made with the RCMP which led to a thorough investigation of CSA allegations against Lee-Ann McChesney relating to conduct that occurred during her time in the work.
In November 2023 the investigation was completed and handed to Crown Counsel for charge assessment. After the Crown determined that there was enough evidence to charge, a warrant was issued on Jan 18, 2024 for the arrest of the Lee-Ann McChesney.
McChesney was arrested Tuesday January 23, 2024 on charges of Sexual Assault and Sexual Exploitation.
Details on the case can be found here: Criminal Search BC with the search info: Lee-Ann McChesney. File number: 255436-1.
Criminal Code of Canada
Sexual exploitation
153 (1) Every person commits an offence who is in a position of trust or authority towards a young person, who is a person with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency or who is in a relationship with a young person that is exploitative of the young person, and who
(a) for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of the young person; or
(b) for a sexual purpose, invites, counsels or incites a young person to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, the body of any person, including the body of the person who so invites, counsels or incites and the body of the young person.
Punishment
(1.1) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1)
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of 90 days.
Inference of sexual exploitation
(1.2) A judge may infer that a person is in a relationship with a young person that is exploitative of the young person from the nature and circumstances of the relationship, including
(a) the age of the young person;
(b) the age difference between the person and the young person;
(c) the evolution of the relationship; and
(d) the degree of control or influence by the person over the young person.
Definition of young person
(2) In this section, young person means a person 16 years of age or more but under the age of eighteen years.
Sexual assault
271 Everyone who commits a sexual assault is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years or, if the complainant is under the age of 16 years, to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 18 months or, if the complainant is under the age of 16 years, to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of six months.
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The link didn’t work for me, but I found the file here. I couldn’t open it to get any details, but am going to try again on my computer instead of phone https://justice.gov.bc.ca/cso/esearch/criminal/partySearch.do
Link in the article is fixed. Thanks for that Rebecca!
The link didn’t work for me. Here is another one that did work: https://justice.gov.bc.ca/cso/esearch/criminal/partySearch.do
Thank you, Rebekah – Anyone wanting to see the documentation of her charges (I can’t get anything more to show than what is posted above), but you need to Enter the location as Surrey Provincial Court.
She’s labored outside of BC, I wonder if there’s not victims in that/those countries? Or perhaps that’s why she was sent back??
Do people just volunteer to go oversees so they can abuse others? It sure seems like there’s a lot of that that’s happened through the years. I don’t think any of them should be allowed to choose, you go where you are needed. If another country is asking for help, then send someone who hasn’t ever had anyone complain about criminal or abusive behavior on them. We want to send our best, not the reject/troublemakers who are not interested in having God work in them (or they wouldn’t be behaving the way they are). Ones who have been in the work for a while, giving time and opportunity to prove their love for the Kingdom of God and HIS people.
My goodness, we don’t allow people to be baptized until they prove that basic love, right?
Henoffour — you are more right than you know and the answer is: YES! Your statement with a question, “My goodness, we don’t allow people to be baptized until they prove that basic love, right?” The group demands “worthiness”. Worthy, as judged by the workers, to be baptized is real.
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If you wear pants that is a disqualifier, along with other ” outward points ” the workers can latch onto. Of course, qualifiers were never needed except one. And that one qualifier doesn’t involve anybody other than the one getting baptized and it says, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins (Acts 2:38)”.
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Of course again, the workers want to inject themselves into the sacred place between God, and those wanting God in their life. Being connected with God and wanting that connection does not need the judgement of the workers to see if you “qualify”. But, the workers want to qualify you, making them above and better than you, that they have the power to judge you because they stand between you and God. You can’t be baptized without them. And yet, workers sexually molest vulnerable people. How is that?
The power necessary to “allow” someone to get baptized, or not, is the same power needed to sexually molest someone. In both instances there has to be a drastic power imbalance between two individuals. The superior has complete control over the other. In both instances the power is fabricated simply because power is the intended purpose. In both instances that power imbalance can be used for significant harm through the abuse of that power, and in both situations the power is completely unwarranted and is unacceptable. In one instance the power can be used for sexual abuse and the other, spiritual abuse. Workers have been known to use their power, simply by having the title “worker”, to cause both of these abuses.
unwarranted power – you make such an excellent point. Power is needed for both types of abuse.
Unwarranted power is correct. A person goes from being a person to a “worker” not because they were “chosen” to be a worker, but because the person, in many cases, had nothing else to do with their life. Going from a “person” to a “worker” there’s immediate status, prestige and power. Power that is completely and absolutely unwarranted and has nothing to do with the person, and everything to do with the title. This power was unearned and easily abused. People without this title feel in subjection to those with the title. Since the title was NOT earned, the power that comes with the title “worker” is easily underappreciated and often misused. Is there are mystery why there is so much sexual abuse and spiritual abuse?