'I don't feel safe': Dad accused of waterboarding teen daughter because her room wasn't 'spotless to his expectations'

A Utah begetter who is besides a region GOP seat "waterboarded" his 16-year-old girl due to the fact that her chamber was not "spotless to his expectations," authorities say.

David Nephi Johnson, 54, stands accused of aggravated child abuse. According to a probable origin apprehension affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, the Heber City Police Department received a study astir kid abuse. The study said the miss "did not consciousness harmless successful her location and expressed fearfulness for her life."

Deputies interviewed the girl, who said a week oregon truthful earlier her father, Johnson, had "waterboarded her." She became "visibly affectional and began crying." The miss stated erstwhile she came location from hanging retired with friends, her begetter was upset due to the fact that she "didn't wholly cleanable her room, and she went retired without having it to beryllium spotless to his expectations."

Johnson allegedly grabbed his girl by the backmost of the cervix and pulled her to the bath wherever the descend was filling with water. He past dunked her caput underwater earlier bringing her out, splashing her look with h2o and dunking her caput again. She wasn't definite however agelong the incidental lasted but estimated she couldn't respire for up to 30 seconds. The miss stated she felt similar she was drowning, cops wrote.

The begetter past ordered her to cleanable her room. Investigators asked however she felt aft the incident.

"I benignant of felt sick afterwards," she told investigators. "Like I couldn't breathe. So it made my tummy consciousness a small sick."

The unfortunate said Johnson had done the aforesaid happening to her now-8-year-old member a fewer years ago. She besides said Johnson backhanded her successful the tummy "because she wasn't compliant to bash something."

"He made amusive of maine for crying," she said.

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She went connected to accidental she does not consciousness harmless erstwhile her begetter is location due to the fact that she thinks thing convulsive whitethorn occur.

"When I spell to bed, I consciousness similar I can't slumber due to the fact that I don't consciousness safe," she told cops.

Authorities removed the miss from the location and placed her with an big sibling portion the 2 younger kids stay successful the attraction of Johnson and his wife. Cops judge the maltreatment has been "ongoing" passim the children's lives but they were "too fearful to study it." Johnson "poses a important menace to the 2 younger children," cops said.

Johnson is the seat of the Wasatch County Republican Party. The vice president volition instrumentality implicit the enactment arsenic the ineligible process plays out, the Wasatch County GOP said successful a statement.

"The information and well-being of children are of paramount value to our enactment and our community," the connection besides said. "We are profoundly troubled by the quality of the allegations brought guardant by the Heber City Police Department."