09-02-2010, 08:49 PM
A US soldier was accused of waterboarding his four-year-old daughter because she would not recite the alphabet.
Joshua Tabor, 27, allegedly pushed the child's head under water face-up in the kitchen sink at his house.
Tabor told a police officer he and his girlfriend "held her down on the counter and submerged her head into the water three or four times until the water came around her forehead and jawline," according to court documents.
The suspect said he meted out the punishment to the youngster for "refusing to say her letters."
Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Wash., was charged with second-degree assault of a child and was due to appear in court Feb. 16.
The suspect told police his daughter was afraid of water "and was squirming around trying to get away from the water."
"Joshua did not act as though he felt there was anything wrong with this form of punishment," the report said.
The controversial practice of waterboarding was used by the CIA to break Al Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Water was poured over the faces of detainees until they feared they would drown.
President Barack Obama since banned the practice.
Police went to Tabor's house in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm after his girlfriend reported he was "irate, intoxicated and walking around the neighborhood with his Kevlar helmet threatening to break windows."
Tabor's girlfriend told officers he beat the child. The youngster's back was reportedly covered in bruises.
She also claimed the child locked herself in a cupboard because she was afraid of her father.
Police sergeant Rob Carlson confirmed the alleged abuse happened because the little girl would not recite her ABCs, according to police reports.
Tabor was released from jail after posting $10,000 bail but restricted to the base at Lewis-McChord as a condition of his release and cannot have any contact with his girlfriend or children.
The youngster was taken into custody by Child Protective Services.
Joshua Tabor, 27, allegedly pushed the child's head under water face-up in the kitchen sink at his house.
Tabor told a police officer he and his girlfriend "held her down on the counter and submerged her head into the water three or four times until the water came around her forehead and jawline," according to court documents.
The suspect said he meted out the punishment to the youngster for "refusing to say her letters."
Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Wash., was charged with second-degree assault of a child and was due to appear in court Feb. 16.
The suspect told police his daughter was afraid of water "and was squirming around trying to get away from the water."
"Joshua did not act as though he felt there was anything wrong with this form of punishment," the report said.
The controversial practice of waterboarding was used by the CIA to break Al Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Water was poured over the faces of detainees until they feared they would drown.
President Barack Obama since banned the practice.
Police went to Tabor's house in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm after his girlfriend reported he was "irate, intoxicated and walking around the neighborhood with his Kevlar helmet threatening to break windows."
Tabor's girlfriend told officers he beat the child. The youngster's back was reportedly covered in bruises.
She also claimed the child locked herself in a cupboard because she was afraid of her father.
Police sergeant Rob Carlson confirmed the alleged abuse happened because the little girl would not recite her ABCs, according to police reports.
Tabor was released from jail after posting $10,000 bail but restricted to the base at Lewis-McChord as a condition of his release and cannot have any contact with his girlfriend or children.
The youngster was taken into custody by Child Protective Services.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass