Oregon prosecutors filed five more sexual abuse charges against former West Linn doctor David Farley last week, increasing the scope of the criminal case against him for alleged abuse of his patients.

Farley capped off a more than three-decade career as a family physician by surrendering his license to the Oregon Medical Board in 2020. He pleaded not guilty to 11 initial charges in October.

On Dec. 12, the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office and Oregon Department of Justice amended Farley’s original indictment by adding five charges: two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and three counts of second-degree sexual abuse.

The sixteen total charges Farley now faces stem from his encounters with five patients who came to him for medical care. The latest charges originate from Farley’s conduct with two patients, including one who was under 14 at the time of the alleged abuse in 2007.

According to the indictment, those two patients testified before a grand jury on the same day prosecutors filed the new charges.

The Clackamas County Circuit Court scheduled a Jan. 13 arraignment for the amended indictment.

Farley and the medical institutions he worked at — the West Linn Family Health Center, Legacy Meridian Park Hospital and Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center — will also be on trial in January in a civil case brought by more than 180 women and girls.

The women and girls have fought to hold Farley accountable for his alleged abuse for more than five years. Four of them first reported their stories to police in October 2020.

Though the case made national headlines and prompted the long-time doctor and leader at a local Mormon church to flee from West Linn to Idaho and then to Utah, it did not initially result in criminal charges.

In 2022, when a grand jury declined to bring charges against Farley, the alleged victims spoke out about what they saw as a botched investigation and prosecution by local authorities. They pleaded for the Oregon Department of Justice to take up their case.

“Today, the survivors of horrific sexual abuse by their disgraced former doctor David Farley had their day in criminal court. Their five-year fight to hold Farley accountable is nothing short of heroic,” the patients’ attorneys Courtney Thom and Tom D’Amore said after the initial charges were filed in October. “We look forward to seeing Farley brought to trial and punished for his horrendous crimes.”

Farley’s criminal trial was originally scheduled to begin in early December, but has been postponed.

Stephen Houze, Farley’s attorney, did not immediately respond to OPB’s request for comment.

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