This week, Douglas Mieras, 64, was charged with Felony 4 child solicitation. (A Felony 4 carries a sentence of between two and 12 years.) The probable cause against Mieras details text messages from Mieras to his victims that are so disturbing, the exact messages will not be published by The Probable Cause.

Alec Hegge told investigators with the Hamilton County Metro ICAC Task Force that he “never hurt” a patient because there were too many safeguards in place. Hegge, 31, originally from Fort Wayne and a 2013 Snider High School graduate, was a registered behavior technician at Changing Lives Behavior Analysis Inc. in Anderson, according to a release posted July 24 on Facebook by the Fishers Police Department.

The Fort Wayne Police Department this week arrested two people accused of various counts of child exploitation.