270 pound cop kicks his daughter because she ate carrots, police chief did nothing with video [View all]

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Berthoud Officer Jeremy Yachik admits physically abusing 15-year-old girl for years
Affidavit: Berthoud chief failed to act on video

LOVELAND, Colo. - A Berthoud police officer was captured on a video punching, kicking and choking a screaming 15-year-old girl to punish her for eating carrots out of a refrigerator, according to court records.

The girl told Loveland police investigators that Berthoud Officer Jeremy Yachik abused her almost daily for years. The abuse allegedly included restraining her hands with handcuffs or plastic zip ties and then slamming her head into a wall hard enough to leave a hole and choking her until she blacked out, according to a Loveland Police Department arrest affidavit. He also beat her with ropes, restricted her food, shackled her in a darkened room for hours and force-fed her "ghost pepper sauce" that's roughly 10 times hotter than habanero peppers.

During a voluntary Sept. 27 interview with Loveland investigators, Yachik, who is 5-feet-11-inches tall and weighs 270 pounds, admitted doing many of these things to the girl, the affidavit said. The officer also confirmed he was the man shown in the video abusing the teen in July 2012.

Asked why he did these things, Yachik told investigators the teen "won't communicate" with him, the affidavit said. He didn't cite anything the girl had done to warrant these punishments, police wrote.

Yachik was arrested Wednesday on a warrant charging him with four counts of child abuse resulting in injury and one count of false imprisonment, all misdemeanor charges, according to police records.

The criminal investigation led Berthoud town officials to suspend Yachik and Berthoud Police Chief Glenn Johnson earlier this month. Town officials also arranged to have Larimer County sheriff's Sgt. John Feyen serve as interim police chief until the criminal investigation is completed. The Sheriff's Office is also conducting an internal affairs investigation into how the Berthoud Police Department handled the accusations of police misconduct.

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Saint-Roberts said she began going public with the video after she sent it to Yachik's boss, Chief Johnson, and he did not respond to her. However, Saint-Roberts said Yachik did call her and said, "Nice try…trying to get me fired…it's not going to work," according to the affidavit.