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HIGHLAND — Police have arrested a Highland man accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl during sleepovers with his daughter.
Police say Daniel Taggart, 50, provided alcohol to the 15-year-old girl and his teenage daughter when the two had a sleepover at his Highland home last summer, according to a police affidavit filed in 4th District Court.
Taggart had the girls play a suggestive card game with him and compete in a "twerking contest," providing sex toys as prizes, the affidavit states.
After about 14 shots of alcohol, Taggart's daughter fell asleep. Taggart then put on a pornographic video and sexually assaulted the friend, the girl reported to police.
Taggart allegedly provided alcohol again to the girls at another sleepover about two weeks later. When Taggart's daughter fell asleep, he again put on a pornographic video and sexually assaulted the girl until she locked herself in a bedroom, according to the affidavit.
Taggart was booked into Utah County Jail Wednesday for investigation of forcible sexual abuse, object rape, forcible sodomy as well as providing alcohol and harmful materials to a minor.
