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State licensing documents reveal that the alleged 16-year-old sexual assault victim of a Cache Valley school-based social worker was one of the social worker's clients.
Donavan Daniel Faucette, 34, of Hyrum, was charged Monday in Logan's 1st District Court with two counts of forcible sodomy, and one count each of rape and object rape. All are first-degree felonies which carry a possible punishment of life in prison.
On Tuesday, according to a state Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing document, Faucette surrendered his license to practice, which he has held since August 2009.
The surrender document also states that the alleged the female victim was a client of Faucette's.
Faucette was arrested Sunday and booked into the Cache County jail after the alleged sex assault was reported to the sheriff's office by his employer, Bear River Mental Health Services, Inc.,(BRMH), sheriff's Chief Deputy Matt Bilodeau said.
Reed Ernstrom, BRMH's chief operating officer, said Faucette had worked for the private, not-for-profit agency for more than seven years, but resigned his post in a telephone call to a supervisor on Sunday. It was the supervisor who called police after hearing Faucette's explanation for giving up his job, Ernstrom said.
Faucette had worked for BRMH at schools in both Rich County and Cache Valley, but Ernstrom said he did not know whether the alleged victim was one of Faucette's clients.
Jail documents say Faucette picked the teen girl up at the home of one of her relatives on Friday and drove to a spot in Logan Canyon where he allegedly forced her to have sex.
Faucette is being held at the jail in lieu of an $80,000 bond. A bail hearing has been set for Thursday morning before Judge Brandon Maynard.