Crime & Safety
Child Molester's Massage License Permanently Revoked
Former Mercer Island Driving Instructor Mark Douglas Satterlund was sentenced to a 10-year prison term for sexually molesting a Bellevue boy and a Mercer Island teenager.
State health officials announced Aug. 23 they had permanently revoked the license of a Bellevue massage therapist and former Mercer Island driving instructor who pleaded guilty in April to several charges of child molestation, sexual assault and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.
Satterlund, 52, pleaded guilty in April to in 2009, an 11-year-old Bellevue boy in 2010, and sexually assaulting seven other minors — most of whom were Mercer Island High School students.
He was sentenced to nearly 11 years in state prison.
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According to prosecutors, he used his positions of authority to take advantage of them while he worked at Swerve Driving School in Mercer Island or as a massage therapist at his home in Bellevue. The victims ranged from his 10-year-old niece up to high school-aged varsity athletes.
The Swerve Driving School operates out of a space rented at the .
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State Department of Health officials say following the administrative action, Satterlund can never again practice massage in Washington.
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