WATERLOO (IA)
Courier
By JEFF REINITZ, Courier Staff Writer
WATERLOO --- A retired minister man has been arrested for making sexual advances to an elderly woman at a care facility.
Waterloo police arrested the Rev. Galen Ermil Peckham, 71, of 15 Bluff St., La Porte City, Tuesday morning for indecent exposure, assault with intent to commit sexual abuse and two counts of simple assault.
He was booked at the Black Hawk County Jail and let out an hour or so later on pretrial release.
According to police and court records, Peckham is a visiting minister and was paying a visit to a 93-year-old woman at Manor Care in November when the incident happened.
Peckham kissed the woman on the mouth, touched her breast and exposed his genitals, records state.