Yesterday, FTVLive told you that WFLD Anchor Rafer Weigel has gotten himself into a bit of a sexting mess with a couple of women.

Weigel was in court yesterday and according to testimony and evidence presented in court, including screenshots of his social media pages, the Anchorman was juggling relationships with a Valparaiso woman, A woman named Kathy Browne and a third woman.

The Valparaiso woman sent Rafer some naked pictures and Browne was accused of using those pictures to violate the revenge porn law.

The Valparaiso woman is married and claims that Weigel reached out to her on Instagram and they began texting one another.

The woman said the texting relationship had progressed when Weigel allegedly sent her sexually explicit photos of himself and she sent some in return.

She said that two met at the Hilton Garden Inn in Chesterton after the woman forwarded him $300 to cover the cost of a rental car. They remained at the hotel for about two hours, she said and had sex.

He then went on vacation with the third woman, posting photos of them together on social media, but he said he wanted to see the woman when he returned. They met again, at his residence in Chicago, for another tryst.

From there, though, their relationship began to sour, the woman said, and she contacted both Browne and Weigel and told them to leave her alone after she said Browne repeatedly contacted her. The woman also told them she would go to the police if the harassment didn’t stop.

Weigel left a voicemail for the woman, played in court, in which he told her to “stand the (expletive) down,” and accused her of trying to ruin his relationship and of illegally sharing his texts, which she said she didn’t do.

By late August, he emailed the woman to say Browne, his ex-girlfriend, had accessed his phone and downloaded compromising pictures the woman sent to him. Browne later allegedly sent them to the woman and threatened to send them to her children’s school.

Weigel, meanwhile, asked for and received a protective order against the Valpo woman on Sept. 11 in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago. The order of protection has been extended until the date of the next hearing in that case, also on Nov. 7.

“He was talking to me and two other women at the same time and I think he panicked and got an order of protection against me because he could walk right in and do it, and I’m getting harassed,” the woman said, adding Weigel was using his power as a local news anchor.

“There’s nothing that connects this to my client,” his lawyer said, adding any texts from Weigel were about having a sexual relationship with the woman, not about harassing her.

While this seems to be a perfect sweeps story, WFLD has not seemed to be covering it.

I wonder if this was happening to the Mayor of Chicago if The Firm’s station would think it is newsworthy?

The saga continues in court.

H/T POST-TRIBUNE