New details have emerged of the 18-year-old mother of two accused of recruiting two underage girls for sex with a top banker who then took his own life after his arrest.
Shauntelle Went is charged with procuring the two girls, aged 14 and 15, to visit CommBank boss Christopher James McCann, 50, for sex at his Brisbane hotel room.
One of the girls was living in a residential care home supervised by the Department of Child Safety at the time, according to the Courier Mail.
She and McCann were both charged with using electronic communication to procure a child under 16 for a sexual act, and faces a maximum of ten years in jail.
Police allege McCann, from Curl Curl on Sydney’s northern beaches, agreed a price with Went for her to procure underage girls to meet him at the Sofitel on May 14.
Went allegedly waited in the Sofitel’s downstairs foyer when the girls went up to his room, but then McCann contacted the front desk asking the girls to leave.
McCann, CommBank’s Sydney-based head of health and social infrastructure, was freed on bail to live at a friend’s home in Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast.
Two days later he was found dead at a beauty spot in Springbrook National Park in the Gold Coast hinterland.
Shauntelle Went, 18, is accused in the infamous alleged child procurement case which saw two underage girls lured to a luxury hotel for a bank executive who later jumped off a
Shauntelle Went has had a traumatic life in the years leading up to her being charged for the child procurement case of two underage girls which saw a bank executive take his life
Chris McCann, a 50-year-old corporate finance executive, allegedly asked Went to procure girls aged 14 and 15 to a Brisbane hotel room in May. Two days after being released on bail, he took his own life
Went was also released on bail, with Magistrate Louise Shepherd telling her: ‘You are a vulnerable young 18-year-old woman who was working at the time as a sex worker from a traumatic background.’
While it is unclear when she first became a sex worker, she has had several previous run-ins with police, run away from home and experienced family tragedy.
Her social media reveals she has been sexually active from a young age, giving birth to her first child in 2021 when she was aged just 14, and her second child two years later.
In April 2021, Went’s younger brother, Aiden, died after disappearing at the Cedar Creek Falls on the Gold Coast.
The 13-year-old went swimming at 5pm at the popular swimming hole, but did not resurface.
Police drivers pulled his body from the water around 10pm. He and Went’s mother, Sherry Carroll, said she did not know how she would recover from the loss.
Went has since posted on social media about the death of her brother, and also admits she struggles with her looks and body image.
She has also spoken online about smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol from a young age.
Shauntelle Went after giving birth to her second child last year
Commonwealth Bank executive Christopher McCann leaves court after being granted bail on charges of procuring underage girls for sex
Shauntelle with family (left) at the funeral for her brother who died aged 13 drowning at a Gold Coast swimming hole. Aiden Braumann disappeared under the water at Cedar Creek Falls in April 2021
In 2022, after the birth of her first child, a baby daughter, Went posted: ‘I know that I’ve made bad decisions in the past.
‘But from now on I’m going to be doing whatever I need to do to change to be a better person for myself my family my fiancé my daughter.
‘I choose to change, so if any of you want to start drama you will be blocked not interested in the childish crap.’
Last year she admitted in another post that she and her partner were on Centrelink after he lost his job, living with her mother, but otherwise homeless.
She has now hit back at social media trolls attacking her personal appearance and her work on the OnlyFans adult content platform, and to refute the criminal charges against her.
Went responded to the abuse on her TikTok page, boasting that she made $16,000 in two days on OnlyFans ‘so I don’t give a f*** which (sic) any of y’all have to say’.
‘You think I give a f*** about who don’t like me? B***h my family don’t even like me,’ she added.
Went was ordered to live at Brassall near Ipswich under her bail conditions, and left court with her partner Tyronne McTackett, the father of her younger child.
Shauntelle Went has hit back at the trolling she has received on her TikTok account since she ws revealed to be a sex worker charged with procuring underage girls for a 50-year-old bank executive
Went is due back in court on the child procurement charge on August 4.
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