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RandySF

(82,413 posts)
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 01:01 AM 9 hrs ago

Utah GOP Official Arrested After He Allegedly 'Waterboarded' Daughter

A county Republican Party official in Utah is facing child abuse charges after he was arrested earlier this week for what his 16-year-old daughter described to authorities as waterboarding.

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

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

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




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-county-gop-waterboarding-daughter-allegations_n_698f6cace4b0be3c0c97310e

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Utah GOP Official Arrested After He Allegedly 'Waterboarded' Daughter (Original Post) RandySF 9 hrs ago OP
My guess is that is not the only thing he has done to her. niyad 9 hrs ago #1
This sounds like something the Taliban would do. 3catwoman3 9 hrs ago #2
Sick fuck. Solly Mack 9 hrs ago #3
So many, many republicans are so sick in the head. mwb970 7 hrs ago #4
I'm so glad she reported her dad. HeartsCanHope 7 hrs ago #5
Baptism! rampartd 6 hrs ago #6
Maybe revenge because at 16, she "aged out" of the GOP preference of little girls? flvegan 6 hrs ago #7
A good guess... 2naSalit 5 hrs ago #8

mwb970

(12,110 posts)
4. So many, many republicans are so sick in the head.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 03:32 AM
7 hrs ago

Most of them seem to be beyond the reach of decency. And they're all "Christians"! Don't make me laugh.

HeartsCanHope

(1,574 posts)
5. I'm so glad she reported her dad.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 03:51 AM
7 hrs ago

This man should never be allowed near his kids, (or any other kids,) again.

By reporting her father, this young girl will hopefully change the lives of all the people in her family.

This quote will haunt me for days, "“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 told investigators, according to 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.”

I hope with all my heart that she gets to feel safe again and that her dad is permanently removed from her life.



rampartd

(4,338 posts)
6. Baptism!
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 04:36 AM
6 hrs ago

Her womanly wickedness was forcing him to sin. She must be punished. Thus sayeth the prophet.

I don't think they were practicing for her fraternity initiation.

On the other hand..... there may have seemed a few times while raising a girl we might have wanted to drown her in the toilet.

i do hope this girl gets some health and sanity. she is at a rough age. about the age of trump/epstein survivors.

flvegan

(66,024 posts)
7. Maybe revenge because at 16, she "aged out" of the GOP preference of little girls?
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 04:48 AM
6 hrs ago

And he was disappointed with the rape opportunities for his daughter and his party leadership.

Regardless, it seems that David Nephi Johnson is just another GOP shit fucking human.

Own it, chud.

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