A 24-year-old Carson City man was arrested Thursday morning for felony child abuse and domestic battery second.
According to the arrest report, Damien Christopher Borgers was arrested after deputies were dispatched to an undisclosed location in reference to a domestic dispute.
Upon arrival, they made contact with Borgers, who came into the parking lot. He said he “struggles with anger issues” and that his girlfriend makes him “explode.”
He said that he and his girlfriend had been in an argument over him “attempting to put a movie on for them to watch.”
He said that after he turned the TV on, his girlfriend said she wanted to leave. He said it made him angry because he thought she was going to leave their relationship and see another man with their children.
Deputies asked if the argument became physical, and he admitted to pushing his girlfriend down onto their bed. Then he said he “didn’t necessarily push her,” but that he’d grabbed her by both shoulders to prevent her from getting off the bed.
He said he then “put” the girlfriend back onto the bed “so they could talk.”
He said he sat on the bed near the girlfriend’s feet and told her he wanted to talk to her. He said she then started “getting crazy, like she always does,” and kicked him multiple times in the stomach.
The deputy asked him to describe what was “crazy” about her behavior, and he said that she was “kicking and flailing like a child while laying down on her back” according to the report.
He said he got up from the bed and wanted to leave the house. He said his girlfriend go tup as well and started to push and shove him out of the bedroom. He said since he’d broken his phone, he asked his girlfriend for her phone to call someone for a ride. He said he was in the living room when his girlfriend first left the apartment with her phone.
He said his girlfriend was planning on leaving and he knew that she was going to spend time with another guy he thinks she is interested in romantically.
He said he got angry and “threw his vape pen against a door in the living room.”
He said that this action scared his three-year-old toddler. He said he screamed at the toddler to “stop crying” and cussed at them. He said he “felt terrible” for cussing at the toddler, and knew he shouldn’t have acted out.
However, he said the “root of his problem with anger is [the girlfriend] pushes his buttons to a point of him blowing up into fits of rage.”
He said the girlfriend then came back into the residence and gathered up both their children. He told deputies he told his girlfriend he did not want her to leave the apartment, so he followed her into the hallway outside the door. He said he again threw his vape, and while he’d been “intending to break his vape against the floor,” it bounced up and hit his toddler in the leg.
He said again he felt “terrible” for his actions because he hadn’t meant to hit anyone with his vape.
He said he went to console the toddler because they were crying “because of the pain of getting hit by the vape he threw,” according to the report. He said his girlfriend prevented him from consoling the toddler, and claimed she was going to call 911. He said he followed her outside and waited for deputies to arrive.
Deputies asked to see his injuries from being kicked several times in the stomach. He said the girlfriend was barefoot at the time, and when he lifted his shirt, there were no signs of injury or bruising according to the report.
Upon speaking with the girlfriend, she said that when they’d gotten up in the morning, Borgers had put his headphones on to play “his game.” She said she knew when he started talking with his friends that he was going to start playing, even though she’d asked him not to. She said she “didn’t want to just sit around and be ignored all day,” so she got her children ready to leave the apartment. She said she had no real plan, and just intended to get away from the environment.
She said this made Borgers angry, and he “immediately attempted to lie to her” and say he wasn’t going to play his game, and that he was putting a movie on for them to watch together. She said when she called him out of his lie, he came angry and violent.
She said he grabbed her and threw her on the bed, then “reared his fist back and threatened to beat her.” She said she got up from the bed and tried to get away from him, but he followed her wherever she tried to go in the apartment complex.
She said she got her phone out and was going to attempt to call her grandmother, or record Borgers’s behavior. She said anytime she’d get her phone out, however, he would grab it and try to take it from her. She said he has prevented her from calling 911 in the past, which is what she thought he would do today.
However, Borgers kept telling her he needed her phone to call someone to get him, as he had broken his own phone. She said while she was getting her shoes on, he either pushed her or “body checked” her and made her fall down on the ground. She said he hit her with such force that she went sliding across the hardwood floor.
She said she got up from the ground but Borgers pushed her to the ground again, this time from her feet, and she fell to her knees. She said he pushed her to the ground approximately four times during the argument, but it was hard for her to remember the details. She said she will often “blank out” of her mind when Borgers is abusing her as a way to get through it.
She said near the end of the argument, Borgers picked her up by the shoulders with both hands and threw her onto the bed. She said he grabbed her legs and pushed her knees up to her face, then put his weight on her legs which caused her legs to go on either side of her head.
She said she was able to breathe, but her airway was very limited due to the position. She said Borgers pulled her pants down, exposing her. She said she wasn’t sure if he was trying to rape her or not. She said Borgers did not pull his own pants down or expose himself.
She said she was able to kick him off of her, then got back to the living room and walked to her vehicle with her belongings. She said she went back into the apartment to get her children. While walking out of the apartment into the hallway, she said Borgers stepped out of the apartment and started to scream at her for leaving him.
She said he threw his vape pen at them, which bounced off the floor and hit their toddler in the back. She said their toddler screamed and cried in pain, and Borgers attempted to come over and console the toddler.
She said that the toddler was scared of him and rejected him by turning away towards the girlfriend.
She said that since the toddler didn’t want to be hugged, Borgers screamed “fuck you” at their toddler.
She said she got both children into her vehicle, and Borgers went inside the apartment. A short time later, law enforcement arrived.
According to the report, deputies noted the girlfriend had bruising on the outside and inside of her upper triceps area consistent with a forceful grab.
She said Borgers has done this in the past and will put her in a “folded” position on purpose as a way to limit her breathing. She said that she never lost her airway during this encounter, but Borgers will put her in the position to prevent her from leaving or fighting back.
Deputies also noted she had bruising and scratches on her right wrist and bruising on her knees and lower legs.
On the toddler, deputies noted that they had bruising near their right shoulder blade “consistent with blunt trauma.” They said based on the coloring of the bruise, it was unlikely to have been from an old injury.
Borgers was taken into custody for domestic battery and felony child abuse. Borgers then began to scream and make suicidal comments. He told deputies, “Why don’t you just shoot me?” and “What do I have to do for you to use force against me?”
He then began to drop his weight down as deputies were walking him to the patrol vehicle. He “continued to kick and scream all the way to the vehicle.”
Once inside the vehicle, deputies ensured he had a seatbelt fastened, but Borgers continued to scream and kick shortly after.
He was taken into custody. A records check showed he was convicted of domestic battery first on Sept. 28, 2023.
Bail for Damien Borges: $45,137
In other arrests:
— A 20-year-old Carson City woman was arrested for domestic battery first after allegedly slapping and hitting her father during an argument.
According to the arrest report, the woman had been dropped off at her family’s home at around 2:30 a.m. early Thursday morning by her boyfriend after they had an argument, and she was upset.
The father told deputies he came outside to see what was happening and found his daughter drunk and holding a beer can. He said he was trying to get her to come inside and go to sleep, and that she became “verbally aggressive and was highly intoxicated.”
She began punching and hitting her father in the chest, according to the report, and the father said he knocked the beer can out of her hand, which deputies located underneath his truck in the driveway.
A witness said they were in the kitchen when they heard the woman crying in the driveway. They said the woman and her boyfriend got into an argument and he’d dropped her off there. They said the woman went to her room, which is accessible from the side gate. Then they heard the gate open again, and found the woman in the driveway.
They said they went to tell the father what was going on, and he came outside to speak with her. They said he attempted to get her to go inside the home, and the woman slapped him and then punched him. They called 911, and the woman left on foot.
Deputies were unable to locate the woman; however, at 6 a.m. Friday morning, the woman was arrested on a different charge. While at the jail waiting to be booked, deputies spoke with her about the altercation. She said nothing physical happened, and upon further questioning, she said, “Just charge me, I’m done talking to you.”
She was booked on domestic battery first, with a bail of $3,000.
— A 29-year-old Minden man was arrested for DUI second and failure to maintain a lane. Bail: $2,615
— A 30-year-old Antioch, Calif. man was arrested for felony possession of cocaine. Bail: $2,500
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