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Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada · 2025

Cecil Wolfe: eight years after a self-styled Cree 'medicine man' used healer status to sexually assault twelve women

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled traditional healer / 'medicine man'

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victims were drawn to Wolfe and sought him out specifically in his claimed capacity as a traditional healer for ailments including depression and cancer; during purported 'healing' sessions he assaulted them and afterward produced trinkets he claimed were 'bad medicine' extracted from their bodies. That healer role of trust was the documented mechanism of access and coercion.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment
  • Ritual, oath, or initiation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-04-23 · guilty plea and sentence

    Court of King's Bench, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Cecil Wolfe pleaded guilty (February 2025) and, on 23 April 2025, was sentenced by Justice John Morrall to eight years for sexually assaulting twelve women over nine years who had sought him out as a traditional healer.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claimed spiritual-healing role
  • staged 'bad medicine' extraction during 'healing' sessions

Primary record

Sources

public broadcaster court reporting sentencing report 'Disgraced Cree medicine man sentenced to 8 years in prison for multiple sexual assaults', CBC News, 23 April 2025.

CBC reports Justice John Morrall's eight-year sentence at Court of King's Bench in Saskatoon, the twelve victims over nine years, and that the women sought Wolfe as a trusted healer.

local newspaper court reporting disposition corroboration 'Cecil Wolfe sentenced to eight years for using medicine man positions to sexually assault 12 women', Prince Albert Daily Herald, 2025.

The Prince Albert Daily Herald corroborates the sentence and that Wolfe used his medicine-man positions to commit the assaults.

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