Soldier waterboards 4-yo daughter

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U.S. soldier Joshua Tabor waterboards his daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet: police

Originally Published:Monday, February 8th 2010, 9:05 AM
Updated: Monday, February 8th 2010, 11:02 AM

A crazed G.I. was arrested for waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she wouldn't say her ABCs.

Cops said Army Sgt. Joshua Tabor, 27, who served 15 months in Iraq, admitted to punishing his daughter by holding her down on the kitchen counter in suburban Washington State and repeatedly pushing her head backward into a full sink.

"He explained she's deathly afraid of water," said Todd Stancil, police chief in Yelm, Wash.
"He would lay her down on her back and push her head into the water right up to her eyeline. He was open about it. He did it all the time. To him, that was an acceptable form of punishment - because she wasn't able to say the alphabet."

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The child had only been in her father's court-ordered custody for two months.
Her father had barred her from contacting her mother's parents, who had raised her. When police put the worried grandma on the phone, the little girl cried from happiness, the police report says.

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I just read about this in a Swedish newspaper - "thank you for your service" just doesn't feel like the right thing to say to this guy, at least not right NOW!

Poor kid...

[Tresses]

How awful!