Padrick Leitz, 22, allegedly stood outside a women’s restroom and sexually touched himself, a Farmington Police Department probable cause statement said. “Multiple witnesses described seeing children nearby the male as he was exposing himself, specifically looking at him in shock,” the affidavit said.

Police booked Leitz at the Davis County Jail on suspicion of class A misdemeanor lewdness involving a child and he was released with a promise to appear in court. Formal charges had not been filed as of Tuesday.

In 2019 and again last year, Leitz was charged with allegedly sexually abusing a young girl in Weber County, charges that could have resulted in prison terms of 25 years to life upon conviction. But both times, the cases were put on hiatus after mental health experts concluded that Leitz lacked the mental capacity to understand the charges and participate in his defense. The experts concluded that attempts to establish minimally sufficient capacity in Leitz would be unsuccessful.

A defense attorney in the 2019 case characterized Leitz’s intellectual abilities as those of a 10- or 12-year-old.

The Weber County Sheriff’s Office arrested Leitz in April 2021 on suspicion of two first-degree felony charges of sodomy on a child. Deputies were called after Leitz allegedly was seen with his genitals exposed in the backseat of a car with a 5-year-old girl. During a forensic interview, the child said Leitz allegedly forced her to perform oral sex.

Leitz allegedly admitted to the incident and disclosed a similar incident occurred three months earlier. An arrest affidavit said Leitz blamed the child and said she “wanted to do it.”

Judge Jennifer Valencia in December last year put the case on hold after the mental capacity evaluation was submitted. Leitz was released from custody.

In the earlier case, Ogden police arrested Leitz in September 2019 on charges of first-degree felony sodomy on a child and aggravated sexual abuse of a child. A probable cause statement said Leitz was found naked in a motor home with a 3-year-old girl — the same child involved in the later case. A teenage boy confronted Leitz and bloodied his nose and face.

On Sept. 29, 2020, the Weber County Attorney’s Office dismissed the charges without prejudice, meaning they could be refiled. Prosecutors said they were not seeking a civil commitment that would put Leitz into mental treatment because state-appointed mental health experts concluded the treatment would be fruitless.

But during the evaluation process in the 2021 case, prosecutors challenged aspects of the evaluations conducted by Utah Department of Human Services contractors. One evaluator had made her conclusions based on information provided by other evaluators and that she had done “zero testing of her own,” the county attorney’s office said in a court document.

“His own behavior shows an awareness that what he was doing with the victim was inappropriate,” prosecutors said of Leitz. “He would sneak into rooms where others were not present to engage in the conduct and, when an adult was seen approaching he immediately stopped the behavior and began trying to deny it happened.”

Prosecutors additionally cited the case of Floyd Maestas, who was sentenced to die for killing an elderly woman. Maestas died of natural causes on death row in 2018. The Utah Supreme Court had ruled that Maestas could be executed despite having a very low IQ.

“If an IQ score below 70 on its own is insufficient to preclude the death penalty, a low IQ score should also be insufficient to conclude Padrick is incompetent to stand trial,” the Weber prosecutors argued.

Attempts to reach Weber County Attorney Christopher Allred and Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings for comment on Leitz’s cases were not immediately successful.