The Aug. 20 written verdict by Judge Darin Reeves, after a three-day trial in June, contains a ban on publication of the identities of the father and daughter and their location. The man’s daughter “repeatedly asked him to go out with an older girlfriend who had been drinking all day,” but he refused. He threatened to report his daughter’s friend to police for impaired driving if she drove her to the town where her mother lived. The friend instead brought the man’s daughter to her home and the daughter was later transported to her mother’s home by a sober driver. “I do not find that [the father] struck, kicked or slapped his daughter, or that he used or threatened to use an object,” Reeves said.