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LOGAN — A Providence chiropractor has admitted to inappropriately touching three patients.
Neil Louis Erickson, 67, was originally charged in two separate cases with four counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. He pleaded guilty to four reduced counts of sexual battery, a class A misdemeanor, as part of a plea deal.
Utah's license verification system lists Erickson's chiropractic license as "surrendered." The surrender order shows he was a licensed chiropractor from February 1983 until January 2022.
The investigation began in October 2021, when a woman told the Cache County Sheriff's Office that Erickson inappropriately touched her breast, according to a police booking affidavit filed in 1st District Court.
The woman said Erickson told her doctors don't check thoroughly enough for breast cancer during mammograms and recommended he do a "breast mapping" procedure. "(The woman) stated that she left the appointment feeling that it was totally inappropriate and that Erickson had crossed boundaries," the affidavit states.
During a police interview, Erickson denied inappropriately touching patients, but admitted to having no training or education related to breast mapping and "stated that breast mapping was his own idea," the affidavit alleges.
In a second case, police met with a woman in January 2022 who said she went to Erickson after injuring her back. She said Erickson put an electrode panel down her underwear, and after the treatment, Erickson put his hand down her pants and touched her inappropriately, claiming he couldn't find the electrode, another police affidavit states.
One of the charges he pleaded to was a plea in abeyance, meaning the charge could be dismissed after a certain amount of time if no other crimes are committed. He is set to be sentenced on May 8 and faces a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail for each charge.
