DA declines to file charges against Taylor Frankie Paul

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah actuality star Taylor Frankie Paul won’t face new charges in reference to current allegations of home violence.

The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office introduced Tuesday that prosecutors have reviewed instances submitted by Draper and West Jordan police and are declining to file any charges.

“The complainant in these cases reported several incidents — some of which occurred more than three years ago. Any incidents of misdemeanor offenses which are alleged to have occurred more than two years ago are barred by the statute of limitations. Incidents which are alleged to have occurred within the statute of limitations have also been reviewed. Several incidents that were submitted do not rise to the level of criminal offenses. The remaining incidents lack sufficient reasonable evidence to support filing criminal charges where the state must be able to prove such allegations beyond a date,” District Attorney Sim Gill’s workplace stated.

The incidents the workplace declined to file on lacked data reminiscent of “when and what actually occurred or corroboration,” the workplace stated. “We would be happy to revisit this matter if additional information is developed which supports the prosecution of the suspect.”

The district legal professional’s workplace added that “no additional individuals were screened for charges.”

Paul was charged in 2023 with aggravated assault and two counts of home violence within the presence of a kid, a third-degree felony; youngster abuse, a category A misdemeanor; and felony mischief, a category B misdemeanor, for allegedly assaulting her former boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, by throwing metallic bar stools at him whereas her daughter was close by.

She pleaded responsible a couple of months later to the aggravated assault cost in alternate for the remaining charges being dismissed. The plea was held in abeyance, and the remaining cost might be dismissed in August if she doesn’t violate any of the phrases of her probation.

But following the discharge of cellphone video from that 2023 incident, ABC introduced in March that it might not air “The Bachelorette” that Paul was to star in. The determination to pull the present was made simply days earlier than its premiere.

Since then, new allegations of home violence had been introduced up. Mortensen filed for a protecting order against Paul on March 19. She, in flip, filed for a protecting order against him on April 7.

Attorneys for each events met in courtroom on April 7 to talk about Paul’s parental visitation time pending a full listening to on the protecting orders scheduled for April 30. A decide stated she might spend supervised time together with her 2-year-old son, whom she shares with Mortensen, for eight hours every week. Her legal professional assured the decide that the kid is protected with Paul.

The decide famous, nevertheless, he had issues about Paul’s volatility, even when Mortensen is the foundation explanation for it for allegedly frightening her.