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   A former family doctor who has been accused of abuse by more than 160 of   
   his patients surrendered to authorities Friday in Oregon, where he was   
   arraigned on felony sexual abuse charges.   
      
   David B. Farley turned himself in at the Clackamas County Jail in the   
   early hours of the morning. A county grand jury indicted Farley on nine   
   counts of sexual abuse and two related counts, all felonies, involving   
   three female patients over a span of 11 years. One of the patients was   
   under 14.   
      
   Farley, 67, appeared for his arraignment Friday afternoon via closed-   
   circuit TV and pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The courtroom’s   
   gallery was crowded, with some observers weeping quietly during the brief   
   proceeding. A judge set a December 6 trial date.   
      
   The moment marks a dramatic turning point in what has been a years-long   
   journey for the scores of women and girls who allege Farley sexually   
   abused them under the guise of medical treatment. Some of the survivors   
   have been urging authorities for more than five years to bring him to   
   justice.   
      
   “The relief that ran through my body…is indescribable,” a former patient   
   of Farley’s told CNN, speaking anonymously out of caution over the ongoing   
   legal proceedings. “Just to know that finally something is being done on   
   the law enforcement side after so many failures from prior law enforcement   
   agencies brings peace in my life.”   
      
   The doctor was first investigated in 2020, when former patients came   
   forward to file complaints with the Oregon Medical Board and local police   
   about his conduct.   
      
   Those complaints ranged from excessive breast and pelvic exams on underage   
   patients to ungloved pelvic exams and Farley taking naked photographs of   
   minors for what he claimed were educational purposes. Patients described   
   sexual abuse as well as being subjected to medically unnecessary and   
   painful procedures such as “hymenectomies” in which Farley would insist on   
   breaking their hymens with his hand, telling at least one teenaged patient   
   he was doing so to “make sex more pleasurable.”   
      
   Through his attorney, Farley has consistently declined to comment on the   
   allegations against him.   
      
   CNN reported on these allegations against Farley last year, sitting down   
   with several of his former patients who described abuse they said they’d   
   experienced and their quest for accountability.   
      
   Many of the women found Farley through church. They were members of the   
   Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in West Linn, Oregon — just   
   south of Portland — and say he was seen as a leader in their tightknit   
   Mormon community. The women say his status as a respected elder in the   
   congregation conferred a level of trust that allowed him to take advantage   
   of them.   
      
   “I had no idea,” one of Farley’s former patients, Nicole Snow, told CNN   
   last year. “I thought this was normal.” Snow said the abuse led to health   
   problems that later caused her to drop out of high school.   
      
   The Oregon Medical Board conducted an investigation and revoked Farley’s   
   medical license in October 2020. Meanwhile, the West Linn Police   
   Department began to conduct its own investigation, led by District   
   Attorney John Wentworth, and in 2022 the case went before a grand jury.   
   But after deliberations, the grand jury said it did not have enough   
   evidence for a criminal indictment, and Farley was not charged.   
      
   Farley’s former patients allege Wentworth and his team fumbled the case,   
   only allowing testimony from a small fraction of women who had filed   
   police reports. In a March 2024 op-ed for West Linn’s newspaper, Wentworth   
   defended his handling of the case, noting that “all known patients with a   
   colorable claim of abuse testified before the grand jury.” In an email to   
   CNN last year, he blamed “a litany of issues outside our control” for   
   prosecutors’ inability to convince the grand jury.   
      
   Many of Farley’s patients joined together in a 2020 civil suit against the   
   former doctor. The lawsuit now includes more than 160 patients – some as   
   young as five years old. The patients also continued to push the only   
   available avenue for Farley to face criminal charges – lobbying for the   
   state’s attorney general to reopen the criminal case.   
      
   In December 2024, after years of defending its handling of the case, the   
   Clackamas District Attorney’s office issued a request that the Oregon   
   attorney general take over the investigation. The attorney general’s   
   office did not comment publicly on the matter, except to say that it was   
   reviewing the case.   
      
   But the office had quietly been moving forward, conducting confidential   
   sessions with a grand jury that heard witnesses and resulted last week in   
   the indictment. The charges against Farley relate to alleged incidents   
   that occurred between February 2009 and July 2020.   
      
   “When these survivors first came forward in 2022 … their claims were   
   scrutinized and dismissed rather than properly investigated,” said   
   attorney Tom D’Amore, who represents Farley’s former patients in their   
   civil lawsuit. “Their commitment to accountability, even in the face of   
   such disregard, is nothing short of heroic.”   
      
   “When I was assaulted, I thought I was alone, I thought I had misread   
   things,” former patient Katie Medley, who detailed her abuse in an   
   interview with CNN last year, said in a statement Friday. “My faith in our   
   justice system was tried over the years. But my sister survivors and I   
   have never stopped speaking out and now we have been vindicated.”   
      
   Farley has since moved to Nephi, Utah, where he lives with his wife. A   
   longtime friend of his told CNN that as of last year, Farley was still an   
   active member of his church community there.   
      
   A judge on Friday set bond for Farley at $500,000. Farley is permitted to   
   leave the state if he posts bond, but signed an extradition waiver stating   
   he won’t contest orders that he return to Oregon for court appearances and   
   to stand trial.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/us/david-farley-oregon-doctor-arrested   
      
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