By Rose Gruenbacher

Former Manhattan chiropractor Clark Petersen was convicted Thursday evening of 51 counts of sex crimes against 16 clients, after a jury deliberated for a day and a half in Riley County District Court.

The jury found Peterson guilty of four counts of rape, 40 counts of aggravated battery, four counts of sexual battery, one count of lewd and lascivious behavior, one count of attempted rape and one count of attempted aggravated criminal sodomy. The victims, all women, said he sexually assaulted them during appointments.

The jury found Petersen not guilty of the remaining charges, which were two counts aggravated sexual battery and seven counts of sexual battery.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

Valerie Petersen, wife of former Manhattan chiropractor Clark Petersen, took the witness stand in Riley County District Court Friday, in a trial charging her husband with numerous counts of sex crimes against some of his former patients. She was the first witness called in attorney Nicholas Heiman’s presentation of the defense’s case.

She started working full-time as an office assistant in her husband’s private chiropractic practice around 2004, and stayed until the practice closed after his arrest. She told the jury that in her time working at the office, she didn’t notice any patients that seemed unhappy or upset after their appointment with Clark Petersen.

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