Dylan VanCamp, 22, of Merrill, Wisconsin, has been charged with six felonies, including three counts of strangulation and suffocation, after he waterboarded his girlfriend. He covered her mouth with a wash cloth before dumping three cups of water on her face to force her to talk about another man, according to a criminal complaint.
He is to make his first court appearance March 23rd, online court records indicate (as shown below).
According to court records, the strangulation incidents occurred in June and November 2015.
The victim, identified in the complaint only with her initials, told investigators the waterboarding incident took place June 30th and she suffered a “hard time breathing and felt as if she was drowning,” the complaint said.
Upset that the woman had been on a computer talking to another man at her apartment, VanCamp pulled her out of a shower by her hair, pushed her onto a bed and did what she considered “waterboarding torture,” the complaint said.
VanCamp was “trying to get her to admit that she was cheating with the guy she had been on the computer with,” the woman told investigators.
The woman also said about four months later, VanCamp threw a salad fork at her in a fit of anger and it stuck into her shin area while they watched a movie, the complaint said.
Another time, VanCamp grabbed a pliers, stared at the woman and told her, “One thing has to go: a tooth or a nail,” although nothing happened, the complaint said.
The woman told investigators VanCamp punched her, kicked her and choked her with his arm to the point that she “felt like she was floating on air” during the eight months she dated him, starting in May, and she was too afraid of him to report the incidents to police, the complaint said.
Police only got involved in mid-January when a state probation and parole agent reported she had a “client” who needed to speak to an officer about some abuse by a former boyfriend, the complaint said.
The woman told investigators that one time when she was being choked, VanCamp kept saying, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I am not going back to prison,” the complaint said.
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