Because she couldn’t recite the alphabet
Well that’s…horrifying…
On the bright side, the girl confessed to a number of terrorist activities.
Agreed, horrifying.
Ah, journalism. She wasn’t “waterboarded”-- he held her down in a bowl of water. Horrific child abuse, yes. Waterboarding, no.
Makes you wonder what kind of prize the mother was if the asshole dad was able to get custody.
Well . . . she did fail to teach the little girl how to recite the alphabet.
Agreed. Abuse, yes, waterboarding this isn’t. I’m curious as to why they barred him from contact with his girlfriend as well.
I wonder if this is part of the “payoff” for the normalization of torture as policy.
Eh, as others mentioned the connection to actual waterboarding seems pretty tenuous.
Plus, the dad seems to have been having some sort of breakdown during the incident:
So I’m thinking developing mental illness rather then generic abusive dad.
I hadn’t even noticed this was in my old neck of the woods.
Sloppy reporting; unless things have changed drastically in the last decade those are two separate bases. One’s Army, the other is Air Force.
It is now known as “Joint Base Lewis-McChord”, and though it’s near Tacoma, in not in Tacoma.
When did that happen?
And trust me, I know exactly where it is.
Part of a 2005 base restructure act according to the link.
I’m not sure if there is a high percentage of Fort Lewis soldiers seeing combat but these [soldier returning from Iraq does something nutter] stories seem to be all too frequent to me.
What I find funny is that the picture on the article shows some folks demonstrating actual waterboarding, while the abuse described in the article itself is a completely different act.
That said, that’s a terrible thing to do to a child.
Yes, it was big news here a few days ago. Slow news day…
I believe Fort Lewis has several striker brigades in Iraq now.
That poor girl has no chance of a normal life. I feel so bad for her. Some people shouldn’t procreate.
Which, of course, makes child abuse perfectly fine. :rolleyes:
I think the point was you can medicate a mental illness but not abusive asshole syndrome.
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A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.
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Wait. A soldier that knows the alphabet :eek: ??