Rapist sentenced to 92 more years in prison for 2018 assault of 91-year-old

GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — A convicted rapist who investigators say “violently” raped a 91-year-old woman at her retirement home in McCordsville in 2018 has been sentenced to 92 more years in prison.

Samuel L. Patterson, 62, had served seven years and six months in an Indiana prison after being sentenced in November 1999 for a home entry, a burglary and a rape in La Porte County in northern Indiana, according to state Department of Correction records.

Prosecutors say Patterson moved to Indianapolis in 2016 on parole for his 1998 conviction. He was taken off GPS monitoring just months before two additional rapes involving him were reported in 2018…

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