LEHI SEmD A Utah County doctor has been formally charged with fondling and videotaping several women, including his own employees.

Steven R. Pack was charged Thursday with two counts of forcible sexual abuse, second-degree felonies, and two counts of voyeurism, class A misdemeanors. He also was charged with a class A misdemeanor count of obstruction of justice. He was originally arrested Aug. 27 on charges of voyeurism for accusations of videotaping two female employees as they were undressing.

"He was originally arrested on the two voyeurism charges, but that kind of brought to the surface some other victims," said prosecutor David Sturgill.

Pack is the owner of Mountain Medical Urgent Care in Lehi, but is not associated with other "Mountain Medical" businesses in Utah.

The 18- and 19-year-old voyeurism victims were employees at the medical center when the incidents happened in late July. Police said one of the women is a newer employee, and Pack told the pair he wanted to practice taking X-rays. The women were directed to an exam room to change for the X-rays, where one of them noticed a small, surveillance-type camera. She then presumably told the other woman, and they reported the incident to police.

Police said Pack also tried to destroy some of the evidence before officers could seize it.

A lawsuit was filed by a third employee of the medical center the day after Pack's arrest, alleging he sexually abused her. According to the lawsuit, the victim was an employee of Pack's over the summer. On July 28, she alleges, Pack told the victim he was teaching medical assistants how to look for and diagnose heart murmurs. He then took her to a patient exam room and allegedly touched her breasts with a stethoscope and later his hand, telling her how to feel for heart murmurs.

"Upon information and belief, at no time would the plaintiff be required to examine and diagnose a patient for heart murmurs," the lawsuit asserts.

The victim left the room, but was called back by Pack to learn how to use an EKG machine, according to the lawsuit. Pack again allegedly fondled the woman, despite her assertions that she understood how to use the machine.

Sturgill declined to say whether the forcible sexual abuse charges involve the woman named in the lawsuit, or whether the charges involve employees of Pack. However, he said there are four victims and the sexual abuse charges stem from some sort of inappropriate touching.

Initially, the charges were to remain with the city prosecutor in Lehi, but Sturgill said once the felony counts emerged, he decided to keep the cases together and charge Pack at the county level.

"They occurred close in time and we believe they're related," he said.

Douglas Thayer, attorney for the woman who has filed a lawsuit, said his client did speak to police about the incident. Thayer said he has had no contact with prosecutors and is not involved in the criminal case, but he believes one of the charges is related to his client's case.

Thayer said his client is an innocent 18-year-old woman who was naive and taken advantage of by a man who she was supposed to trust.

"She was sexually battered," he said. "This was horrific for her."

The motivating factor for the woman to press forward with the lawsuit and to speak with police was to prevent a similar crime from happening to someone else, Thayer said. It has been very difficult for her and has changed her life, he said. Although Thayer said he has no proof yet, he said he believes Pack has shown a pattern of abuse.

"We have reason to believe that he has a history of sexual abuse of his employees," he said.

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