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46-year-old deaf man Michael Phillip Clegg was arrested Monday night in Evans, Georgia after two violent incidents involving his wife and two daughters, ages 12 and 10.
Clegg’s wife is deaf also.
Authorities at the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office told our Sign1News producer, at 10 AM Monday morning, Clegg and his 10-year-old daughter were play fighting in the living room when Clegg told the little girl “If you touch me, I will hurt you.”
When the little girl playfully touched Clegg’s arm, he shoved her head back, grabbed her right arm and bent it backwards in an attempt to break it.
Clegg’s wife asked him to leave but he refused.
She grabbed a broom to defend herself but Clegg snatched it away, shoved her to the ground, her over the head with the broom then pushed the broom against her throat, choking her.
The wife and two daughters hid in a bedroom for about an hour.
According to the arrest report, later that night Clegg told his 10-year-old daughter he wanted to kill her and paralyze her.
When his wife scolded him, Clegg became upset and threw a bowl of chili that splattered on the wall and his wife’s back.
Clegg then began choking his wife with his hands.
That’s when the couple’s 12-year-old daughter tried to break up the fight but was punched in the nose by Clegg.
The fight ended when the wife and two daughters hid in a bedroom and called 911.
Clegg was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and battery, making terroristic threats and cruelty to children.
Making terroristic threats is a felony punishable by up to a year in jail.
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