Convicted child molester given life without parole | News

After the jury’s verdict was delivered, Superior Court Judge Travis sentenced him to life in prison without parole in light of his multiple prior felony convictions.

According to District Attorney Herb Cranford Jr., Patterson has been arrested over 60 times in his life and has been convicted of numerous felonies.

According to evidence presented at the trial, Patterson lived in Sweetbriar Mobile Home Park and hosted parties where he supplied alcohol and drugs for a teenage family member and his high school-age friends, which included teenage girls younger than 18.

Some of those girls testified at his trial about the parties and his behavior, which included

Patterson making sexual comments and touching the girls inappropriately.

In 2020, an 11-year-old girl told Coweta County authorities that Patterson had molested her.

After that girl reported being molested, a second victim came forward and told authorities that

Patterson sexually assaulted her when she was 15 years old at one of his parties in 2015.

According to her testimony, she and her boyfriend fell asleep at Patterson’s trailer, and she woke up to Patterson assaulting her.

This incident was the basis for the charge of aggravated sexual battery, which carries a maximum possible sentence of life without parole, and for the second charge of child molestation, Cranford said.

“It is tragic that he was living freely in our community to be able to sexually assault at least two minor females,” Cranford said. “I am thankful that these victims and our entire community can rest a little easier knowing that he will never…