Joshua Tabor, Who Served in Iraq, Accused of Waterboarding Daughter

Joshua Tabor, Who Served in Iraq, Accused of Waterboarding Daughter
Authorities Say the 4-Year-Old Was Punished Because She Wouldn't Say Her ABCs
By Emily Friedman | ABC News

An Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months has been restricted to his Washington military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to recite her ABCs.

Joshua Ryan Tabor, 27, was arrested on Jan. 31 and charged with assaulting a child after police in Yelm, Wash., responded to a call of a disturbance at Tabor's home and then later found the little girl hiding in a locked bathroom, according to Police Chief Todd Stancil.

"We had a report of [Tabor] walking around his neighborhood holding a Kevlar helmet and threatening to bust out windows," Stancil told ABCNews.com today. "In the process of talking to Tabor's girlfriend about what was going on, we learned that he had also been abusing his daughter."

Stancil said that when the cops coaxed the little girl out of the bathroom they saw that she was covered in "multiple bruises pretty much all over her body."

"She was very open with us," Stancil said of the young girl, whose name is not being released because she is a minor. "She basically came right out and said, 'Daddy does this to me. He uses his hands.'" Read more.

International coverage:
U.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet' | Mail Online