Thread: US Soldier Waterboards 4-Year Old Daughter Because She Couldn't Recite The Alphabet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...-alphabet.html

From the realm of the totally fucking depraved:

U.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet'

A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.

Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.

As his daughter 'squirmed' to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.

Tabor, 27, who had won custody of his daughter only four weeks earlier, admitted choosing the punishment because the girl was terrified of water.

The practice of waterboarding was used by the CIA to break Al Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Detainees had water poured over their face until they feared they would drown. President Barack Obama has since outlawed the practice.

Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows.

Police discovered the alleged waterboarding when they went to his home in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm and spoke to his girlfriend.

She told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat.

Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: 'Daddy did it.'

During a police interview Tabor allegedly admitted grabbing his daughter, placing her on the kitchen counter and submerging her face into a bowl of water.

Sergeant Rob Carlson said the punishment was carried out because the girl would not recite the alphabet.

Police have not revealed Tabor's military service, but his base is home to units that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tabor has been charged with assault and ordered to remain on his base and have no contact with his daughter or girlfriend, who has not been named. He is due to appear in court this week.

The girl has been taken into care. Her natural mother lives in Kansas but Tabor had been granted custody by a court.

No doubt today's torture enthusiasts will insist that such treatment was entirely humane.

really fucking stupid

Does anyone really understand what water boarding is?

I know far more about waterboarding than I ever wanted to. What may have escaped my notice as some obscure Khmer Rouge or Soviet torture technique was instead co-opted and used - with pride! - by America, a country that used to be above that particular sort of inhumanity. I can only pray that the poor girl wasn't held under for too long, and that the trauma she experiences as a result of this is minimized by her young age (though the opposite may of course hold true). She's going to have issues for the rest of her life; waterboarding is used to turn the hardest of men into weeping, half-sane shells of their former selves. I can't imagine the effect it would have on a little girl (though at least she wasn't subjected to it 183 times).

I long for a simpler time when torture was administered with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. The good old days.

bring our camel fucking troops home and commit them involuntarily to locked mental institutions

I'm appalled. Absolutely horrified.

He needs to be charged with attempted homicide of a child. I can't imagine what the hell sorry state the mother is in to warrant the courts giving custody over to THAT douche.

He needs to be locked in a cell with big beefy inmates with large penises. Inmates who are looking for a new relationship. And by relationship I mean forced buttseks.

Originally Posted by amaranth

bring our camel fucking troops home and commit them involuntarily to locked mental institutions

BRILLIANT