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Police: Rathdrum girl in kidney failure after father’s abuse

by KAYE THORNBRUGH
Staff Writer | July 14, 2026 1:09 AM

COEUR d’ALENE — A Rathdrum man is facing felony charges after prosecutors said he brutally beat his 11-year-old daughter with a belt and denied her medical care to hide the abuse.

Aaron Dyk, 32, is charged with two counts of injury to a child and a single count of aggravated battery, all felonies. Police originally booked him into jail after 1 a.m. Saturday on a charge of attempted murder. 

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