SALT LAKE CITY — Reported rapes at the University of Utah increased nearly sixfold from 2022 to 2023, with a single relationship university officials said was “plagued by a history of coercion and interpersonal violence” accounting for 150 of 175 reports.
According to the university’s just-released 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, rape reports spiked from 30 in 2022 to 175 the subsequent year.
The victim-survivor told police that the rapes occurred over a seven-month period between 2021 and 2022. Federal law requires that the offenses be counted during the calendar year they were reported…