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CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC4) — A father living in Cedar City has been arrested for intentional or knowing child abuse after biting his daughter hard enough to leave a mark.
The man has not been formally charged yet, and ABC4 is not identifying him in order to protect the identity of the victim.
According to the arrest statement, the Utah Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) received a report of a 5-year-old girl with "an obvious human bite mark" on her right arm. DCFS responded to the child's school to in