Font ResizeA South Salt Lake man allegedly bound his wife, brought her 2-year-old into the room and threatened to kill the child with a dumbbell if she did not confess to an affair he suspected.
In charges filed Tuesday, police wrote that the man held the woman captive for three days starting Sept. 21, choking her with a cable, cutting her hair off with a knife and beating her.
The man, 31, allegedly accused the woman of cheating on him and told her it was "time to instill fear into her" and "make her suffer," according to the charges.
He took her into the bedroom, beat her and then cut the cord from a clock radio, using the cord to bind her wrists and ankles and wrapped a cord around her throat and choked her, police wrote.
He continued beating her, police wrote. Several times he called her 2-year-old son into the room, held him by the back of the neck and said, "Tell me the truth or I will take him out. I know it will hurt you if I take him out."
When the child asked the man why his mother was crying, the man allegedly told the child she had done something bad.
He would not let his wife use the bathroom nor leave the room, police wrote. He made her remove her clothing and lie on the bed, where he put his legs over her to keep her from leaving while he slept, police wrote.
The next day he allegedly took her to a clothing store and bought her a black dress.
On Sept. 22, the man put something inside a sock and
The woman took her child to a store and called police.
The next day, police found the man at his mother's house, across the street.
The man was charged with two first-degree felony counts of aggravated kidnapping, two third-degree felony counts of aggravated assault, third-degree felony commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child and interruption of a communication device, a class B misdemeanor.
The man's mother, 50, was charged with obstructing justice, a second-degree felony.
