An Alabama company under fire by advocacy groups for alleged abuse of troubled teens in its facilities in Iowa and elsewhere is shutting down two locations in Utah.

Thus far, Sequel Youth and Family Services has announced no plans to close its for-profit facility in far southwest Iowa, which has been the subject of numerous abuse complaints over the past five years.

Sequel confirmed this week it will close Mount Pleasant Academy and Red Rock Canyon School in St. George. The move comes after a riot at Red Rock Canyon School and a report this year by the Salt Lake Tribune exposing sex abuse and escalating violence at the hands of staff members.

Watchdog uncovered similarly serious reports of sexual assault, excessive restraint and other abuse last year at Clarinda Academy. The facility has housed hundreds of kids ages 13 to 18 with significant behavioral and mental health needs who are referred by human services or juvenile courts.

Last year, as the state was investigating abuse allegations, three campus nurses and the director at Clarinda Academy told investigators that no major injuries had occurred to restrained students in recent years, documents obtained Iowa’s open records law showed.

But staff at Clarinda had slammed children to the ground and injured them while punishing them, according to documents from Iowa’s Department of Human Services. They also kept several students for weeks at a time in a suspension room with no plan to help them earn their way back into Clarinda’s general population, the documents show.

Under existing rules at Clarinda, residents were only expected to be secluded from their peers for up to 72 hours if they were posing a threat, likely to cause property damage or seriously disrupt a group.

Similar reports of abuse were subsequently reported by NBC news.

The state of Washington has stopped sending children to Clarinda. A federally mandated protection and advocacy organization in that state alleged earlier in 2018 that foster children were being held against their will and verbally abused.

Sequel also owns Woodward Academy in Woodward, Iowa.

A call Tuesday to Steve Gilbert, a vice president at Sequel, went unreturned.