{"id":649858,"date":"2026-05-05T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:35:09","slug":"youth-camp-pastor-charged-after-teen-sexually-assaulted-in-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649858\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth camp pastor charged after teen sexually assaulted in Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man who is a pastor and youth camp director has been charged with sexual assault, Winnipeg police say.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege that between August 2025 and March 2026, Carson Alexander Parago forged a sexual relationship by grooming and gaining the trust of a youth camp counsellor who was a teenager at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The teen met with Parago on multiple occasions in private and was allegedly sent sexually explicit material by him, a news release from Winnipeg police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the alleged offences took place in Winnipeg and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Police were alerted in March and Parago was arrested in Winnipeg on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with sexual assault, sexual exploitation, luring a person under 18 and distributing sexually explicit material to a person under 18.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not provided any information on the victim&#8217;s age or sex.<\/p>\n<p>Parago has been released from custody under court-ordered conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Support for survivors of sexual assault include Winnipeg Police Services victim services at 204-986-6350 and the Klinic sexual assault crisis line at 204-786-8631.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-649858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}