Des Moines Chiropractor Pleads Guilty to Child Sexual Abuse

Photo: Polk County Sheriff's Office

(Des Moines, Iowa) -- A Des Moines chiropractor is being charged with sexually abusing multiple children.

Court documents say 41 year-old Joshua Hanisch is pleading guilty to three charges in abuse going back as far as 2010. He was first charged in April of 2020, and police say their investigation uncovered even more victims, all girls under the age of 12 at the time of the abuse.

Hanisch is sentenced to 10 years in prison on each charge, with one sentence being served concurrently.


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