Utah GOP Official Arrested After He Allegedly ‘Waterboarded’ Daughter | EUROtoday

A county Republican Party official in Utah is dealing with little one abuse fees after he was arrested earlier this week for what his 16-year-old daughter described to authorities as waterboarding.

David Nephi Johnson, who till his arrest Tuesday in Heber City headed the Wasatch County GOP, was arrested on one rely of first-degree felony aggravated little one abuse after the Utah Division of Child and Family Services acquired a report.

Johnson’s daughter informed authorities in January that her father had “waterboarded” her for not cleansing her bed room to his satisfaction, based on an affidavit obtained by HuffPost.

In the affidavit, an officer who interviewed the sufferer stated she was emotional and crying whereas she “disclosed that approximately one and a half to two weeks before the interview, her father waterboarded her.”

The lady additionally informed police that her father had grabbed her by the neck and took her “into the bathroom while the sink was filling with water,” the affidavit acknowledged.

“She disclosed that [Johnson] dunked her head under, brought it out, splashed water in her face” after which dunked her head beneath “again and again,” the officer wrote.

The sufferer stated she didn’t know the way lengthy the dunking session lasted, however informed investigators she was generally unable to breathe for as much as 30 seconds at a time.

“I don’t feel very safe. When I go to bed, I feel like I can’t sleep because I don’t feel safe,” she informed investigators, based on the affidavit. “When my dad’s not home, I feel fine. But when he’s home, I never feel safe because I feel like something is going to happen.”

The sufferer alleged that her siblings had skilled the identical punishment and stated he hit them and made enjoyable of them for crying.

Johnson was taken into custody Tuesday and was launched on $10,000 bail the subsequent day. His subsequent courtroom date is March 11.

After he was arrested, the Wasatch County GOP introduced on its web site that its members are “deeply concerned and troubled by the nature of the allegations brought forward by the Heber City Police Department,” earlier than saying that, “in accordance with our bylaws, Vice Chair Patty Sprunt will temporarily assume leadership to ensure the party continues its work for the residents of the county without distraction.”