16 new sex-abuse charges filed

The Utah Attorney General's Office kept heaping the allegations on a former nanny Thursday, filing 16 more charges in a growing sex abuse case involving young male victims.

Prosecutors said they have charged David Michael Busby, 27, with 10 counts of sodomy upon a child, a first-degree felony, four class A misdemeanor counts of violating a protective order and two counts of tampering with a witness, a second-degree felony.

The new charges are in addition to 18 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony, in the same case. Those initial charges against Busby, filed in February, stem from allegations that he took illicit pictures of a 13-year-old boy he once cared for as a nanny.

"The child has now revealed what has actually occurred," said Assistant Utah Attorney General Paul Amann.

On Tuesday, Busby was charged with sexual abuse in separate case in Davis County.

Prosecutors say Busby wrote disturbing letters to a Salt Lake City couple's children while working for them as a nanny in 2002. The father obtained a protective order against him in 2003. Busby fought it all the way to the Utah Supreme Court, which rejected his claims to a right of free association.

According to court papers filed Thursday in 3rd District Court, Busby went to the teenage victim's home two days after being released from jail. Prosecutors allege Busby let himself in with a key he had and sexually abused the boy again.

In interviews with detectives referenced in the court papers, the victim told detectives he and Busby had sex on many occasions. Busby, the documents said, had also written the victim several letters, one of which makes reference to the protective order filed against Busby in 2003.

"(P)lease Honey, please my Sweet Love, please don't give up on God. I know you have been praying for so long just like I have been, and just as things started looking closer to ending and all our hope and faith was in God to end our suffering and separation, it only got worse," Busby wrote.

Investigators said in a probable cause statement that the victim's mother had signed an affidavit requesting the protective order be dropped. Detectives interviewed the mother and she admitted to allowing Busby to see her son in 2004, while the protective order was in place.