A former student support worker with the Seven Oaks School Division has admitted to sex and luring-related offences involving four female youths and other unidentified victims spanning five years.
Matthew Mousseau, 38, appeared in Winnipeg court Wednesday and pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation and one count each of luring, accessing child sexual abuse material, voyeurism, indecent exposure and providing liquor to minors.
Mousseau remains in custody and will be sentenced at a later date following the completion of reports looking into his personal background.
Court heard the Crown will be seeking a sentence of up to 28 years in prison.
Mousseau worked as an educational support worker for the school division from September 2016 to June 2018, and as a student-parent support worker from August 2018 until October 2020. He was previously listed online as a student-parent support worker for the division’s Wayfinders mentorship program.
Mousseau was first arrested and charged with voyeurism in May 2024 after police conducting a shoplifting investigation at Polo Park mall found him in possession of a cellphone he had “strategically” taped inside a shopping bag next to a small hole, Crown attorney Alanna Littman told court, reading from an agreed statement of facts.
Mousseau gave police permission to look at his phone. Police reviewed then-recent photos and videos on his phone that captured Mousseau walking closely to females in the shopping mall. His phone also contained several videos of young girls engaged in sex acts.
In July 2024, police interviewed Mousseau about allegations he had been involved in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student. Mousseau confirmed the relationship, disclosed that his phone contained child sexual abuse material and that he had been looking at such material up to three times a week for the past year.
Police secured a search warrant for Mousseau’s phone, which revealed he had “surreptitiously recorded children and adults in various states of undress” in the change room of Seven Oaks Pool between April 2023 and May 2024.
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