BATTLEFORD - A woman charged with accessory after the fact in 20-year-old Damian Moosomin’s murder was granted bail for a second time.
Melissa Semaganis, 41, of Poundmaker First Nation had a bail hearing Thursday in Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench and a court appearance in North Battleford Provincial Court Friday.
Semaganis was arrested in April 2021 and granted bail in June 2021. She was arrested three months later for breaching her release conditions. She is back in court May 30 to enter a plea on the charge of accessory after the fact to murder.
Semaganis, Stormy Wapass-Semaganis, Tye Partridge, Jannay Blackbird, Denver Roy, and a young offender who can’t be identified in accordance with the Youth Criminal Justice Act, were all charged with Moosomin's murder. Moosomin’s body was found in the 1500 block of 105 Street in North Battleford on May 16, 2020. He was reported missing to police on May 11, 2020.
Wapass-Semaganis had a bail hearing in Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench in June and the judge issued a ban on publishing the results of the hearing.
Partridge, Blackbird and Wapass-Semaganis are charged with first-degree murder. Semaganis and the young offender are charged with accessory after the fact to murder. Roy’s second-degree murder charge was reduced to improperly interfering with human remains and he was sentenced in November to 300 days in jail, less 285 days for time served while in remand.
The charges against Partridge, Wapass-Semaganis, Semaganis, Blackird and the young offender haven’t been proven in court.
