Christian School Coach Arrested On Child Sex Charges

February 2, 2023 China, Religion

CTV News reports:

Aaron Benneweis, 46, has been charged by Saskatoon Police with sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a minor while in a position of trust or authority.

A former student of Legacy Christian Academy – who CTV can not name because she is an alleged victim of sexual assault – says she came forward to SPS in August of 2022 alleging she was involved in several incidents with Benneweis between 2008 and 2013, starting on her 13th birthday.

The former student says Benneweis was the athletic director while she attended the school. “He was my first kiss, and I was 14 at that time,” she said. “He had me stripped down to my underwear in his own bedroom in his house, that kind of thing. He had a condom on multiple times.”

The CBC reports:



Benneweis has also been named as a defendant in a proposed class-action lawsuit — filed before he was criminally charged — against former members of the school and adjacent church.

The lawsuit was launched against Legacy Christian Academy and the connected Mile Two Church last summer, after a CBC News investigation revealed 18 former students from the same academy had filed criminal complaints to police.

Those reports outline allegations of paddlings, coercion, traumatizing rituals and solitary confinement that students say they experienced during their time at the school. Dozens more complainants have come forward since the lawsuit was filed.

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