(This story has been updated to add new information.) FORT WORTH — A jury found Anthony Ryan Patterson guilty of five counts on Tuesday during his trial for allegations of child sexual abuse and child trafficking. Patterson was found guilty of trafficking, three counts of indecency with a child by exposure and sexual performance by…
A criminal harassment charge against a former University of Iowa fraternity brother has been dismissed, ending a yearslong legal case surrounding an alleged 2020 sexual assault. Carson Steffen, 23, was charged with first-degree harassment, an aggravated misdemeanor, in 2021. The criminal complaint alleges he shared without permission on Snapchat photos of an individual “engaged in…
WEST PALM BEACH — When the pastor knocked, his parishioner answered. She welcomed Pheguel Pierre Louis into her home, unsettled by the disturbing dream he said he had about her the night before. She was in trouble, Pierre Louis said, and he needed to pray over her. The pastor, 40, and the woman, 23, gave…