VA nurse practitioner pleads guilty to sexual abuse of patients

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A nurse practitioner has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two patients at a Veterans Affairs clinic in St. Louis County.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 62-year-old William Luchtefeld, of Edwardsville, pleaded guilty Thursday in St. Louis County Circuit Court to second-degree sodomy and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse.

Prosecutors say Lutchtefeld abused one patient in June 2019 and another five months later in November. Luchtefeld is set to be sentenced on Oct. 21.