A “selfish” Utah dad allegedly tortured his three young children by taking them on a difficult hike before going missing, as cellphone footage captured his daughter asking if they were “going to freeze to death.”

Micah Smith was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse and child torture for taking his 2-, 4-, and 8-year-olds on a brutal hike in Big Cottonwood Canyon on Oct. 11.

“What seemed like an innocent hike with his three children quickly turned into a nightmare when the defendant chose to summit a mountain over the safety of the kids,” the indictment read.

The 31-year-old father told his children they were doing the Broads Fork Trail, with his daughter hearing it was either a 9-mile or 9-hour hike, but she couldn’t remember which, according to an indictment obtained by Fo

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