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2 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Heather Vogell |Alec MacGillis |McKenzie Funk |Jessica Schreifels
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices. In one case, workers said an employee used a piece of cardboard from a trash bin to funnel coconut oil, a formula ingredient, into a tank during production.
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3 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |McKenzie Funk |Jeremy Schwartz |Dan Keemahill
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The last time Sam met with his therapist, Scott Owen, the session was nothing more than an hour of Owen sexually abusing him, he told a Provo, Utah, courtroom this week. Sam remembers sitting in his car afterward, screaming as loud as he could. “I could feel him all over my skin,” he said.
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4 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |J. David McSwane |Mara Silvers |Nadia Sussman
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Utah legislators this session took aim at life coaches who harm their clients’ mental health, but the law that the governor signed Wednesday stops short of prescribing minimum standards or ethical guidelines for the burgeoning profession.
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2 months ago | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jake Pearson
This story describes explicit details of a sexual assault. This article was produced by The Salt Lake Tribune, a member of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Former Utah therapist Scott Owen admitted in a Provo courtroom on Monday that he sexually abused several of his patients during sessions.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
sltrib.com | Jessica Schreifels
Note to readers * This story describes explicit details of alleged sexual assault. Utah County prosecutors on Tuesday filed more than a dozen new felony charges against OB-GYN David Broadbent, accusing him of sexually assaulting three of his patients during pregnancy exams. These counts are in addition to two felonies Broadbent already faces for allegedly sexually abusing a different patient.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
sltrib.com | Jessica Schreifels |Trent Nelson
Phoenix, Arizona * She was 14 years old in 2021 when Samuel Bateman decided he wanted her as a wife - and the self-proclaimed prophet took her as one of 20 women and girls he "spiritually married."Bateman was leading a sect that broke off from the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Being a Bateman "wife," the girl said in a victim impact statement, harmed every part of her life. He stripped her of her personality, her dreams and her ambitions, she wrote.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
sltrib.com | Trent Nelson |Jessica Schreifels
This is the second in a two-part series about the rise and fall of Samuel Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet who sexually abused girls he had taken as his wives. Read part one here. Colorado City, Arizona * A woman in a navy blue dress stood red-faced and sobbing, her head in her hands. Another sat on the floor staring blankly into the distance, looking shocked and confused. Other women hugged each other for comfort.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
sltrib.com | Jessica Schreifels
Utah County prosecutors have filed a new criminal charge against OB-GYN David Broadbent, now accusing him of sexually assaulting a patient twice during two separate exams in 2020. Broadbent was charged last week with first-degree felony object rape.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
sltrib.com | Jessica Schreifels
Over the last six years, S.D. has often thought about what she says happened inside an exam room at Utah Valley University's student clinic. She remembers how a nurse practitioner opened her thin, yellow paper gown to expose her chest, she said, and how he gave her a breast exam - her first - that was unlike any medical care she has experienced since. At the beginning of the exam, she said, he palpated her breasts with his fingertips.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |Lomi Kriel |Eleanor Klibanoff |Kavitha Surana
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. A frustrated woman recently called the Utah official in charge of professional licensing, upset that his office couldn’t take action against a life coach she had seen. Mark Steinagel recalls the woman telling him: “I really think that we should be regulating life coaching.
