told the Globe and Mail<\/a> that the number may reach 30.<\/p>\nThe patterns described by multiple women are strikingly similar, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
Semenchuck would use an alias and send a text claiming intent to have sent the message to another number, it was alleged. The seemingly innocent text then led to a casual exchange that turned into constant messaging, according to women interviewed by Canadian press outlets.<\/p>\n
Semenchuck would frequently use the names \u201cJay Lewis\u201d or \u201cSteve Perkins\u201d while presenting himself as a contractor or project manager, according to the reports.<\/p>\n
K, an Indigenous woman recovering from domestic abuse, received an unusual message while staying in a women\u2019s shelter.<\/p>\n
She told Globe and Mail that the text felt like a lifeline at her lowest moment and that she continued correspondence for a period of four years.<\/p>\n
It was only in 2023 did she begin questioning who he really was.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Do I really know this guy?\u2019\u201d she told Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n
When she ran a photo he had sent her through facial-recognition software, it returned an image of a man sitting at a desk with a police jacket hanging behind him.<\/p>\n
A police acquaintance confirmed it was Semenchuk, according to the report.<\/p>\n
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Semenchuck pleaded guilty on Friday to using the Regina Police Service database to pursue intimate relationships with around 30 women.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t describe the feeling, everything that went through my head in that moment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the first things that hit me was fear. Fear of this person, his power and what he could do.\u201d<\/p>\n
K contacted police, triggering an internal investigation which lasted for two years. She said the man she knew was a fiction.<\/p>\n
C, another woman, told Globe and Mail she received a message from someone identifying himself as Steve.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was 18 years trying to find someone, and I didn\u2019t know how to go about it,\u201d she told the publication.<\/p>\n
Their relationship lasted a year and a half. She said parts felt affectionate, but Steve became controlling and demanding.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was sex-crazed,\u201d she said, describing constant pressure to send explicit photos.<\/p>\n
She struggled to understand why she was targeted. \u201cHow did he know who I was? Why did he choose me?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Meghan Hillsdon, a disabled single mother recovering from spinal surgery and grieving the death of her father, told Globe and Mail she responded to a wrong-number message days before Christmas in 2022.<\/p>\n
She later learned police believed she had been targeted by Semenchuck.<\/p>\n
Another woman, identified as H, said Semenchuk contacted her in his capacity as a police officer after a domestic violence incident in 2019, then sent late-night messages for months.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was constant,\u201d she said. She recalled her mother\u2019s reaction when she described the texts: \u201cThat\u2019s really inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Post has sought comment from Semenchuck\u2019s attorney. Semenchuck resigned from the force in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A decorated Canadian police sergeant with more than two decades of experience on the force pleaded guilty to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10585,4393,9,11,10,104,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-49179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-misconduct","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Robert Eric Semenchuck, 53,\u00a0of the Regina Police Service in Saskatchewan is pictured above. Regina Police Service\/<\/p>\n