Overview
- Police in Heber City arrested David Nephi Johnson after a DCFS report, charging him with first-degree felony aggravated child abuse.
- The 16-year-old told investigators he grabbed her by the neck, submerged her head in a sink multiple times, and then told her to clean her room.
- Authorities placed the teen with an adult sibling, while two younger children remain with their parents as investigators say the abuse appears ongoing and that he poses a threat.
- The girl reported that her now 8-year-old brother was subjected to similar treatment in prior years.
- Johnson was released on $10,000 bail and is due in court on March 11, as the Wasatch County GOP installs Vice Chair Patty Sprunt as interim leader.