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FIRST READING: In the U.S., serial rapists die in prison. That never happens in Canada

Nathan Chasing Horse is going to prison for 37 years. In Canada he'd probably be free in five years

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For his lengthy history of “preying” on Indigenous women and girls, Dances With Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse will likely be spending the rest of his life in jail.

In a Nevada courtroom this week, the 50-year-old Chasing Horse was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 37 years.

Judge Jessica Peterson accused Chasing Horse of using his reputation as a traditional healer to exploit girls as young as 13 for his own “personal gratification.”

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“This court is going to make sure that you never have the opportunity to do that again,” she told him, to clapping from the court’s gallery.

The case garnered headlines in Canada in part because some of Chasing Horse’s alleged victims were Canadian, although some of them weren’t included in the Nevada charges. Chasing Horse........

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