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The Utah County Attorney’s Office has filed additional charges against a former Provo gynecologist accused of sexually abusing his patients, Provo’s Daily Herald reported last week.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday in 4th District Court that two counts of felony rape have been added against David Broadbent, stemming from a January 2020 incident in which a patient alleges she was assaulted during a medical exam.
According to court documents, the woman stated that she requested the use of a smaller instrument during a pap smear due to past trauma from childhood abuse. She told prosecutors that instead of accommodating her request, the physician was “rough” while using a speculum and ignored her repeated pleas for him to stop. “She was crying and hitting the walls telling the defendant to stop, no, no, no and please no more,” court documents allege.
The defendant then allegedly used his hand to sexually abuse the patient despite her protests, according to the allegations outlined in the court filings.
These new charges are in addition to previous allegations made by multiple women who have accused the former doctor of inappropriate medical misconduct while under his care. The former gynecologist was initially charged last June with one count of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony.
Last month, the court announced over a dozen additional charges against him, spanning three separate cases of alleged unwanted exams and claims of abuse in multiple hospitals. Some allegations date back to the 1970s, according to ABC4.
Scrutiny over the physician’s conduct began in 2022 when four women filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse and battery. Nearly 100 women later joined that lawsuit, though it was dismissed later that year. In August, the Utah Supreme Court reinstated the case, allowing it to move forward.
The defendant voluntarily surrendered his medical license in 2022 and is no longer practicing as a physician.
He is scheduled to appear in court for a pretrial hearing on the most recent charges on March 17.
