Soldier father accused of 'waterboarding' daughter, 4, because she can't recite alphabet

no, this soldier is insane and should not ever be allowed around children again.

I think that some of our soldiers need a little more "basic" training, let alone edumacation....lest bankrupt Republican "family values" continue to trickle down to the GOP base (no pun intended).

This is just one soldier we know about. How many more do this to their kids?

I'm sure she has suffered brain damage from this. I guess we'll have to cut military spending so that she'll receive an education and employment or life-long care.

actually us right wingers would rather waterboard him.just keep the left wingers off my back if i "accidently" push his too far down in the water.

outlawtrkr,

have to say I agree with you.

I hope that he doesn't hold the high standards of "reciting the alphabet" for Teabaggers.

Is there enough water on the planet to deal with that morass of anti-intellecualism?

Edgar-Re-Poe,

I agree, this is sick and disgusting! She is just a little girl and he is an abusive creep who needs to get his butt kicked. He also needs to go to jail for a good long time for the abuse of his little girl. I hope she is never at his mercy again!

People like this idiot are why the government should license parenthood.

That's why "Honour Thy Father and Mother...." is full of @!$%#.

Metal Guitarist:

I would agree with you, if all parents were like this one.

Truth is they're not.

I would hazard a guess that 90%(and that's a conservative number) of parents are loving, caring, nurturing individuals. All they want for their children is to leave them better off than they were left by their parents. All they want for their children is the best.

Inject Norplant in her so she won't create another situation like this.

I'm sure there is going to be a definite slow-down in her educational enthusiasm. The sad thing is that she is at a really good age for learning not only the alphabet, but also reading, mathematics, languages and her father has probably made her afraid of one of the most important things she will ever do in her life. To play devil's advocate for just a moment, I do wonder if there is some PTSD or other stress related disorder that is going on here and not being treated or treated successfully.

I wouldn't call it "afraid" to learn at this point. She's probably so resentful and suffering from her own private spitefulness (she will have some, no thanks to him), that she doesn't want to learn. She might accidentally have great teachers who have a degree of understanding behind the psychological damage and are willing to put forth the extra effort to coax her out of it, rather than "force" the matter, but I'll be surprised if she does, for the simple reason that most of today's youth do not appear to have it.

We can always hope for that miracle teacher who turns those educational resentments/phobias around!

Don't blame the kids for cutting class, blame parents and teachers for causing children to hate school in the first place.

I have something to say-beat that POS into next week and monitor the living rooms of other soldiers to make sure they aren't doing the same thing.

Soldiers like this POS are why I want bigger government. Children need to be protected by those who cry PTSD.

And our society deserves what it gets as a direct result of it.

She may have been just as afraid of him as the little girl...she did tell the police what happened though when they asked her...I saw that he is not to be around his daughter, or the girlfriend.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is knowing that you must step up despite it. Where the girlfriend is not the biological mother, no woman should stand by while a child is being hurt. I would put myself in harm's way if I thought it would save the life of a child. But that is just me.

I agree. I don't think anyone should stand by and do nothing when someone else is being hurt. She may not think that way, or she may have been just as traumatized herself. We do not know what the problem was, why she didn't do something about it in the first place. I have put myself in harms way to help others because I will not stand by and watch someone get hurt without doing something. That is just me though...

In the Army they have health and welfare inspections for on post housing. If a complaint is registered, a team is sent out to evaluate the situation. I was once a part of the team. I could tell you stories that would curl your hair. But if a soldier lives off post, a HWI cannot be done.