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Utah Dad Punishes Teenage Daughter with ‘Waterboarding' | Crime Alert 6AM 02.13.2026 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner,
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  Speaker 1: a County Republican Party chairman in Utah, was arrested Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: and charged with aggravated child abuse after he repeatedly dunked
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  Speaker 1: his teenage daughter's head in a bathroom sink because she
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  Speaker 1: didn't clean her room to his specifications before going out
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  Speaker 1: with friends. A police report says that Wasauch County officials
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  Speaker 1: received a report on January twenty first from the Division
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  Speaker 1: of Child and Family Services that the girl had told
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  Speaker 1: them she did not feel safe in her home and
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  Speaker 1: expressed fear for her life. The girl told child advocates
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  Speaker 1: David Nefied Johnson, fifty four, punished her when she came
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  Speaker 1: back home, telling them her father grabbed her by the
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  Speaker 1: back of her neck, took her into the bathroom while
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  Speaker 1: the sink was filling with water, and took her into
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom while the sink was filling with water. She
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  Speaker 1: said that Johnson dunked her head under, brought it out,
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  Speaker 1: splashed water in her face, then dunked her head under again.
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  Speaker 1: Girl also said there had been other incidents in which
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  Speaker 1: her siblings were abused, including a younger brother whom Johnson
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  Speaker 1: took him into the bathroom and forced his head under
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  Speaker 1: the water. She said Johnson pulled her brother from under
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  Speaker 1: the water, splashed water on his face and nose, knocked
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  Speaker 1: him down, and repeated the act again multiple times. The
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  Speaker 1: girl told investigators, I don't feel very safe when I
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  Speaker 1: go to bed. I feel like I can't sleep because
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel safe. When my dad's not home, I
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  Speaker 1: feel fine, but when he's home, I never feel safe
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like something's going to happen. Johnson is
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  Speaker 1: the Wasach County Republican Party chairman. The party's executive committee
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  Speaker 1: released a statement saying, quote, the safety and well being
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  Speaker 1: of children are paramount importance to our party and our community.
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  Speaker 1: We are deeply concerned and troubled by the nature of
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  Speaker 1: the allegations brought forward by the Hebrew City Police Department.
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  Speaker 1: The Wasauch County GOP Executive Committee met in an emergency session.
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  Speaker 1: In accordance with our bylaws. Vice Chair Patti Sprunt will
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  Speaker 1: temporarily assume leadership to ensure the party continues its work
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  Speaker 1: for the residents of the county without interruption. The committee
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  Speaker 1: said no evidence had been presented so far and that
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  Speaker 1: the community should refrain from judgment. Johnson was arrested on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday and booked into the Wasatch County Jail. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this. A California man behind bars
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  Speaker 1: this week, accused of intentionally driving into a group of
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  Speaker 1: children and parents conducting a youth baseball fundraiser outside a
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  Speaker 1: Truckee grocery store. Jonathan Marr, forty nine, faces eight counts
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  Speaker 1: of attempted murder in multiple counts of assault with a
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  Speaker 1: deadly weapon, with several sentencing enhancements. Nevada County District Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Wilson commented the allegations that this act was intentional
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  Speaker 1: and directed at kids is hard to comprehend. Our office
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  Speaker 1: will work through the criminal justice process and if the
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  Speaker 1: evidence supports the charges, do everything we can to the
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  Speaker 1: fullest extent of the law to hold this individual account,
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  Speaker 1: send a clear message that this behavior has no place
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  Speaker 1: in society, and protect the public from further harm. The
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  Speaker 1: twelve U. Tahoe Titans were outside a Safeway store raising
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  Speaker 1: money for an upcoming trip to Cooper'stown All Star Village
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  Speaker 1: in New York when Mar drove into the group three players,
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  Speaker 1: three parents, and a player's sibling were injured. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the athletes were counting the crash to Casey R. Three,
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  Speaker 1: I heard it like two seconds before or a half
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  Speaker 1: a second before I got hit got hit by a car, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I did, And I just remember getting pulled out a rebel.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie DeWitt, a parent of one of the players, said
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  Speaker 1: the moments leading up to the attack were odd. Put
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  Speaker 1: a cigarette out on one of our signs and walked
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  Speaker 1: into the store. He came back out and gave us
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  Speaker 1: a terrible look and mumbled something we don't know. He
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  Speaker 1: had hit us from behind with his truck and sent
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  Speaker 1: us through the building. Court records show that mar has
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  Speaker 1: a lengthy criminal history. A forty eight year old Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: man has been arrested after he allegedly uploaded hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: files of child rate material. Court documents showed that Michael
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  Speaker 1: Francis uploaded five hundred and thirty nine images in one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty five videos between May eleventh, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: and October fifteenth, twenty twenty four. Google made the initial report,
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  Speaker 1: but it went through multiple channels before it was sent
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  Speaker 1: to the Memphis Police Department. According to an affidavit, filed
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  Speaker 1: in the case. Google provided Francis's name as the one
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  Speaker 1: the user provided, as well as two verified phone numbers,
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  Speaker 1: both belonging to Francis. Additionally, the user uploaded non pornographic
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  Speaker 1: images and videos during the same time period that were
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  Speaker 1: self produced and they matched known photos of Francis. Francis
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  Speaker 1: was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and is
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  Speaker 1: being held on the seventy five thousand dollars bond. He
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  Speaker 1: is scheduled for a bond review later today. Police in
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania issued a summons last week for a Maryland woman
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  Speaker 1: involved in a road rage crash with a motorcycle in
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  Speaker 1: Upper Allen Township. The The motorcycle was driven by a
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  Speaker 1: man and carrying an eight year old girl. According to
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  Speaker 1: Upper Allen Police, a Honda Accord struck the rear of
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  Speaker 1: the motorcycle during a road rage incident on October eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Police identified the driver of the Accord
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  Speaker 1: as twenty three year old Amya Steele, who they said
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  Speaker 1: fled the crash scene, only to have her vehicle become
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  Speaker 1: disabled a short time later. She was charged with aggravated assault,
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  Speaker 1: simple assault, recklessly endangering another person. Harassment and reckless driving.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, police said they were investigating a road
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  Speaker 1: rage incident involving three motorcycles in a black Honda Accord
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  Speaker 1: and asked for information from anyone that may have been
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  Speaker 1: in the area and witnessed these vehicles in their behavior.
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  Speaker 1: They provided no further information on the case, other than
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  Speaker 1: to say Steele appeared for a preliminary hearing last Thursday
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  Speaker 1: and was bound over to county court. They did not
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  Speaker 1: provide any information about any injury suffered by the man
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  Speaker 1: or the little girl involved in the incident, and no
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  Speaker 1: local media appeared to have asked for the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and joy Just as breaking news, be sure to follow
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  Speaker 1: with this crime Alert. I'm Sydney Sumner.