{"id":24369,"date":"2025-10-31T18:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:08:27","slug":"manhattan-chiropractor-convicted-of-52-counts-of-rape-aggravated-sexual-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24369\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan chiropractor convicted of 52 counts of rape, aggravated sexual battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan chiropractor was convicted of 53 counts of rape and aggravated sexual battery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Clark Petersen, of Manhattan, was sentenced to 27 years and 6 months, plus an additional 4 years on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Petersen was arrested on Aug. 28, 2023, in connection with sex crimes reported at his chiropractic office. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Clark Petersen\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/N2NM2D7BNJGXNK7MBYP2GZJFAA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"512\" \/>Clark Petersen(clarkpetersenchiropractic.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incidents occurred between 2018 and 2022 and involved five female victims between the ages of 37 and 59. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for 16 counts of sexual battery, along with one count each of rape, aggravated sexual battery, lewd, and lascivious behavior. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was confined in the Riley County jail under a $300,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is no further information at this time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan chiropractor was convicted of 53 counts of rape and aggravated sexual battery.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[15710,15711,15712,15709,15713,3130,75,84,83,9,24,63,3018,3132,11853,15714],"class_list":["post-24369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-27-years-and-6-months","tag-4-years","tag-chiropractic-office","tag-clark-petersen","tag-incidents","tag-jail","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rape","tag-riley-county","tag-sex-crimes","tag-sexual-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24369","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=24369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}