‘I couldn’t imagine doing that to my child,’ woman says of father sent to prison

  • Robert Sprague, 65, was sentenced to jail for violating a protective order.
  • His daughter disowned him, citing a history of deceit and narcissism.
  • She advocates for awareness of non-spousal domestic violence, urging victims to report incidents.

SALT LAKE CITY — Just before Robert Quentin Sprague was sentenced, his adult daughter, in a statement read by a victim advocate, told the court that her father is dead to her.

“This was just the cherry on top of the sundae. We’ve always had issues,” the daughter told KSL about her statement and her father’s latest conviction. “He’s very narcissistic, so the world revolved around him. And that was very apparent from a young age, and that got worse as we all progressively got older.”

Now, the daughter hopes she can raise awareness of what she believes is an underreported issue: non-spousal or intimate partner domestic violence…

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