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The third case of criminal sexual conduct with a minor has been brought against a Mapleview man.

Joshua Alan Lamaack, 44, made a first appearance in Mower County District Court Monday morning to face two more charges of felony first degree criminal sexual conduct of a minor.

According to the court complaint, the victim in this newest case spoke to a detective with the Mower County Sheriff’s Office regarding the alleged sexual assaults by Lamaack, which allegedly started when the victim lived in a home in rural Mower County.

The complaint alleges that the abuse began when the victim was five and continued when the family moved to Austin all the way through until the victim was around 13 or 14 years old.

The victim estimated that the abuse at one point escalated to every day and that sometimes it included multiple times during a day as well as several locations around Austin and Mapleview.

Lamaack allegedly told the victim once that if he said anything then Lamaack would harm a family member.

The victim told the detective that Lamaack abused him hundreds of times throughout the span and went on to say that the effects of the alleged abuse continued on well after the attacks stopped and that he has been diagnosed with Child Sexual Abuse Trauma Personal History.

Lamaack was first charged in November of 2023 with felony criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, penetration or contact with a person under 13 and felony criminal sexual conduct in the first degree-injury-use of force/coerce.

In that case he was accused of sexually abusing a child from the time he was 11 to around 17-years-old.

He was charged again in July of 2024 with three more felony counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct. Two of those are related to the victim being under 13 to 15, and the third is for the use of a dangerous weapon.

In that second case, Assistant County Attorney Scott Springer advised in a court filing that if convicted the state would seek an aggravated sentence based on the age making the victim particularly vulnerable, the cruelty of the assaults and that the offense occurred in the victim’s zone of privacy.

Lamaack is alleged to have committed the assaults from the time the victim was five-years-old into the mid teens. It was also alleged that Lamaack would be physically violent and that on a few of the occasions Lamaack used a knife to threaten the victim claiming at one point that if Lamaack would go to prison he would kill the victim.

Lamaack’s next court date in this latest case is scheduled for an initial appearance on Feb. 24.

He is also slated for a jury trial for the previous cases on Sept. 29 with a pretrial scheduled before that on Sept. 19.