Utah County prosecutors announced Thursday that they won’t file additional criminal charges against OB-GYN David Broadbent, despite reports to police from at least 49 women who say he sexually assaulted them during exams.

The charges will remain limited to the eight patients already included in their prosecution.

Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray made the decision after “carefully considering the charges filed,” according to a news release, and the resources that his office and the courts “can allocate to this matter.”

“The mission of the Utah County Attorney’s Office is to protect Utah County by vigorously investigating and prosecuting crime and compassionately assisting crime victims,” the news release states. “Mr. Gray has concluded that proceeding with the eight currently filed cases is the best way to fulfill this mission.”

Broadbent, now 79, currently faces two dozen felonies in connection to eight patient reports. He is scheduled to go to trial in the first case, which prosecutors filed two years ago, in September 2027.

In charging records, prosecutors say this patient told police that she saw Broadbent in 2020 regarding a bump in her vaginal area. Broadbent allegedly instructed the patient to undress from the waist down — but when he returned to the exam room after she changed, prosecutors say he lifted up her shirt and bra and touched her breasts. He then grabbed her leg “in what felt like a sexual manner,” prosecutors say, and began a vaginal examination.

Broadbent has pleaded not guilty in that case to forcible sexual abuse and object rape.

Dozens of women have reported to Provo police that Broadbent sexually abused them during exams, and prosecutors weighed whether to file charges for two years prior to filing that first case. Since then, prosecutors have continued to file a case every few months.

Many of the women who reported to police allege Broadbent inappropriately touched their breasts, vaginas and rectums during exams — often without warning or explanation, and in ways that hurt them and made them feel violated. Other former patients, along with many of the women who went to police, have also sued Broadbent or the hospitals where he worked, with more than 200 women making sexual assault allegations in civil lawsuits.

Broadbent’s attorney, Cara Tangaro, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday, but has previously said that her client “adamantly denies sexually abusing any of his patients.”

In 2022, the OB-GYN agreed to stop practicing as police and prosecutors investigated the sexual assault reports. His physician license expired in January, according to licensing records.