Patrick Green
Introduction
Patrick Alan Green, 63, is a former elementary school teacher in Box Elder County, Utah, who was charged on October 6, 2026 with eight first-degree felonies — including rape of a child and sodomy upon a child — in two criminal cases alleging the sexual abuse of his former students . The charges arrived four years after Green was arrested in October 2022 on similar allegations, an arrest that never produced charges because the Box Elder County Attorney’s Office declined prosecution at the time . Green was fired from his teaching job after the 2022 arrest and has separately faced lewdness charges from a 2026 swimming pool case in Cache County .
Background Information
Green taught for approximately 24 years in the Box Elder School District, with the last seven or eight of those years spent at Garland Elementary School, according to police . In October 2022, he was arrested by Tremonton-Garland police on four counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child after two female students reported inappropriate contact, including allegations that he touched one student beneath her clothing in the classroom and touched another beneath her swimsuit at the Brigham City community pool . The district placed him on administrative leave when it learned of the allegations, hired a replacement, and officially fired him after that arrest . Despite a court order holding him without bail after the 2022 arrest, no charges were ever filed in that case .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
The Box Elder County Attorney’s Office filed the new charges on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, in two separate cases. The first charges Green with rape of a child, sodomy upon a child, and two counts of object rape of a child — all first-degree felonies — alleging offenses between August 2020 and June 2021 against a victim under the age of 14 who was his student; the probable-cause statement alleges the child was helping Green clean the classroom when they went into a janitor’s closet and Green forced himself on her and raped her . The second filing, an amended information, charges four counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child, alleging Green inappropriately touched another former student at his desk and at her desk, and again at a public pool where they ran into each other .
The 2026 filings substantially overlap with the 2022 investigation that ended without charges. The county attorney’s office said at the time that “after reviewing the information available at that time, the office determined that no criminal charges could be filed and it was necessary to decline the case for prosecution,” while stressing that a decision to decline reflected only the evidence and circumstances then available and was not a finding about guilt or innocence . Separately, Green was booked into the Cache County Jail on July 15, 2026 on eight counts of third-degree felony lewdness involving a child and one lewdness misdemeanor, after several minor victims reported that he exposed himself to them at a Nibley community pool . The charges in all three matters are accusations, and Green is presumed innocent unless proven guilty .
Public Reaction and Consequences
After news of Green’s October 2026 charges became public, police told KSL that additional potential victims stepped forward and contacted investigators, widening the pool of accusers beyond the filings themselves . The four-year gap between the 2022 arrest and the 2026 charges drew attention to the earlier decision not to prosecute, which the county attorney’s office explained in a public statement while declining to discuss the current case . Northern Utah outlets, including KSL and Cache Valley Daily, tracked the filings across both counties, noting that Green had already been fired from the district years earlier .
Current Status
Green faces the two Box Elder County cases filed October 6, 2026 — eight first-degree felony counts combined — along with the pending Cache County pool case from his July 15, 2026 arrest . He was terminated from the Box Elder School District after his 2022 arrest and has not taught there since . No trial or conviction has been reported in the sources available for this page, and all charges remain unproven allegations against him .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Green’s 24-year teaching career ended with his 2022 arrest and firing, years before the current charges were filed, and the new felony complaints foreclose any return to education regardless of outcome . The case became a regional example of a declined prosecution resurfacing as a full charge set years later, with the county attorney’s 2022 statement now part of the public record alongside the new complaints . The new filings returned Green’s conduct to public view with a fuller charge set than the 2022 case carried, and the county attorney’s earlier statement about declining prosecution now sits alongside complaints alleging rape of a child — with no conviction entered and every count unproven .