SHOCK: Joshua Tabor, U.S. Soldier, Waterboards 4-Year Old Daughter Because She Wouldn't Recite Alphabet

U.S. soldier, Joshua Ryan Tabor, waterboards daughter, with the help of girlfriend, because she wouldn't recite alphabet.

Joshua Ryan Tabor, a U.S. soldier, has been accused of waterboarding his four-year old daughter because she would not recite her alphabet, according to The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wa. Tabor, 27, was charged with second-degree assault of a child and he is scheduled to be arraigned February 16. This man has had anger issues before and I have to ask why was the child allowed to stay with him, considering that her biological mother is in Kansas. The child has been placed in Protective Custody. It will be very interesting to see the true family dynamics that this poor child has found herself in. Tabor has been released on $10,000 bond and is prohibited from having contact with the child or his girlfriend.

According to court records: Yelm police responded to a disturbance Sunday night after Tabor’s girlfriend reported that Tabor, a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier, “was irate, intoxicated and walking around the neighborhood with his Kevlar helmet threatening to break windows.”

Tabor’s girlfriend told Yelm police that Tabor beats his 4-year-old daughter and that the child’s back was covered in bruises. The girlfriend reported that the 4-year-old had locked herself in a closet because she was afraid of her father. The girlfriend also reported that when the child wets herself, Tabor “makes her sit in the urine-soaked clothes” until he gives her permission to change.

The girl spoke to a Yelm officer, and he observed that she “had severe bruising on her entire back,” along with scratch marks and bruising on her neck, throat, chin, arms, legs and buttocks. She “was asked how she got the bruises and she replied ‘Daddy did it.’”Asked how or why it happened, the child would not reply, then said, “I don’t know why he did it.”

Tabor spoke to a Yelm police officer and said that he and his girlfriend had “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.” He said that she was face-up when her head was in the water. He added that they gave this punishment for the 4-year-old “refusing to say her letters.” Source: The News Tribune

Here's what equally disturbing, Joshua Tabor doesn't seem to think anything was wrong with his method of punishment. He has reportedly had "serious anger issues in the past" and has even "taken anger management classes." His girlfriend should have been arrested since she helped him to hold the child's head in the water.