Nov 11, 2023

Jail time after Kansas massage therapy clients reported him

Posted Nov 11, 2023 3:00 AM
Sample-photo Sedgwick County.
Sample-photo Sedgwick County.

SEDGWICK COUNTY —A Kansas man is going to jail for admitting to sexual battery of women while working as a massage therapist. 

 Zachary Alan Sample, 33, Belle Plaine, pleaded as charged to four counts of misdemeanor sexual battery and agreed to a two-year jail sentence, according to the Sedgwick Count District attorney's office. Judge Tyler Roush followed the recommendation.

On May 23, 2022. police received a report from a 38-year-old woman that a male massage therapist had sexually assaulted her during a massage at an East Wichita massage establishment, according to Office Trevor Macy.

The suspect was identified as Zachary Sample who was an employee of the business at that time.

Two additional victims – a 29-year-old woman and a 26-year-old woman – reported being sexually assaulted by Sample during the month of May.

After extensive follow-up by detectives, a warrant was issued for Sample’s arrest through the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office. Police located and arrested Sample on the warrant.

 The massage establishment where the crimes were alleged to have happened  cooperated with the investigation.