Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
SALT LAKE CITY — A former staff member at an assisted care facility has been charged with sexually assaulting a resident there.
Tadd Butterfield, 20, of Taylorsville, was charged Friday in 3rd District Court with two counts of forcible sodomy, a first-degree felony.
In June 2014, the alleged victim, a "special needs adult male," according to charging documents, was living at North Eastern Services. The facility itself on its website as a place to help "individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities." They have several locations across the state.
The 26-year-old man has autism, according to a police report.
Butterfield, then 18, was a new employee. On the first day Butterfield was allowed to work unsupervised, he went into the resident's apartment, locked the doors, closed the blinds and sexually assaulted him, according to charging documents.
The man told police what had happened and was taken to the hospital for a forensics examination. Tests that took about a year to complete found DNA on the man matched Butterfield's DNA profile, according to the charges.
Bail was set at $125,000.
