Arrested: Cop Accused of Choking, Beating, Starving Daughter, Video Shows Him Kicking Her for ‘Eating Carrots’
A video released shows a police officer beating his teenage daughter because she ‘ate carrots.’ The town’s police chief and a second officer are on leave and under criminal investigation as of Monday.
35 year-old Jeremy Yachik from Loveland, Colorado, was arrested on Wednesday morning and charged with four counts of child abuse and one count of false imprisonment. According to the arrest papers, Yachik’s daughter told interviewers at the Child Advocacy Center in Fort Collins that she had been choked until she blacked out, force-fed hot sauce, bound with handcuffs and plastic zip ties, locked in rooms, punched and kicked, beaten with ropes and starved.
The officer admitted to investigators that he did many of these things to the girl and said it was because she would ‘not communicate’ with him.During a search of Yachik’s Loveland home, investigators say they found evidence of child abuse, including repaired drywall damage near a fireplace where the 15-year-old victim said Yachik slammed her head, according to the Mail.
The officer’s ex-fiancee Ashley Saint-Roberts, sent the video to the Berthoud Police Department last spring without receiving a response except from the accused.