Waterboarded for ABCs
Anger over alphabet ends in arrest:
27-year-old Joshua Ryan Tabor of Yelm, Washington has been arrested for holding his 4-year-old daughter’s head under water in their kitchen sink. Allegedly because the girl wouldn’t recite the alphabet.
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.”
Tabor told police that his daughter is afraid of water “and was squirming around trying to get away from the water. Joshua did not act as though he felt there was anything wrong with this form of punishment.”
Actually I doubt his girlfriend had anything to do with it since she’s the one who called police after Tabor allegedly…
“was irate, intoxicated and walking around the neighborhood with his Kevlar helmet threatening to break windows.”
Tabor is also accused of abusing the girl and…you know what? You have to read the article to see just how vicious this moron was to his own child. Drowning the girl for the alphabet is only just the beginning.
Thanks to Morrigan for the tip.
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September 1st, 2010 at 3:11 am
I dont KNOW him but I agree it is sad. Not many ppl have nice things to say about a jerkface like him.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
So….are you the abusive jerk? Or just someone with a similar name? Why aren’t you in jail?
August 27th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
At Hollys house in 06 I think it was maybe 05.
August 27th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Thats funny. I don’t remember you.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I actually have met this family. I lived in Washington and had Easter brunch with them. I dont know them well. I do however know the moms best friend. From what I am told mom had nothing to do with it. There is more to the story tho that I am not able to share.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Liz Cheney said waterboarding is not torture several times on a news junket circuit she did last year. Just google it and you will find video of it.
This “father” is from Georgia. If you google him there is a lot more detail for this on the Atlanta Journal Constitution site. Its scary and sad. My heart aches when I hear these kinds of things.
February 14th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Milton, WTF does Cheney’s daughter have to do with anything, you douche?
February 13th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I guess we can ask, did the military let this “mental deficient” into their ranks or did they make this normal guy in this “mental deficient”. Even Ronald Reagan said that water boarding was torture, but I guess Cheney and his gay daughter are the brain trust on this lie that has been perpetuated onto the American people and signed off by the GOP.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:35 am
Good for you Sarah, No one know what it could mean to a child to give them a reassuring, understanding smile, it might just give them the lift they need that day, not that that should be all we do, but it’s about “the least we can do and the most we can do”…
February 9th, 2010 at 12:26 am
This physically hurt to read. I hope wherever this liitle girl is someone just lavishing her with love. Everytime I see A kid in the store, dr office wherever I make it a point to say Hi and ask them some basic question. Or tell them how cool their shoes are or how I ike their coat or hat. It may seem weird, but I always think that maybe their home life could be bad and maybe seeing kindness from a stranger might give them hope. When you say a prayer for your children tonight try to remember these ones too.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Yeah, “wonder” why she has a fear of water…
She probably also has a fear of closets, fists, punchings, scratchings, slaps too….imagine that!
February 8th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Tough guys bully babies.
February 8th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
It’s not the first time I’ve heard of a soldier coming back from duty and then harming/killing his own child. Thankfully the girlfriend reported it. I don’t know what opinion to form about her because there was not enough info in the article. Maybe she has called before… maybe she hasn’t. If not, then she’s guilty of whatever failure to report child abuse is called. Does this guy have post traumatic stress disorder? If so, then get him some counseling and do NOT give the child back until he’s “better.” Why does he have custody in the first place? Makes me wonder if bio-mom is unfit. Hard to tell these days since fathers also seem to be getting custody. I’m grateful the child is ok. I pray that she find a safe place to be. If dad can pull his crap together, then ok. If not, that child should never go back.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
This guy obviously has an anger problem. He also needs a class in patience. Wow. Okay you are a soldier but you don’t treat your 4 year old like she is at boot camp. I wonder why the mother doesn’t have custody? Anyway, I am so sad that a little girl has been scarred and scared let alone by her own father for something so minor. I also hope someone kicks him out of his ego trip.It’s just so easy to torment a little child so it’s not like he could be proud of this. Scum bag.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:17 am
OK, up until my son learned that if he looked up, the water wouldn’t get on his face when I was washing his hair, he’d scream blue bloody murder (not that I didn’t try and help him to look up, explain it, etc… he just wouldn’t do it until recently) and I felt like I was water boarding him. It’s a horrible feeling when you know something you have to do (like washing your child)is like torture for them. I can’t imagine purposefully doing this. WTF is wrong with people?
February 8th, 2010 at 6:10 am
Do you really want to know, DodiaFae?
Granted I think you already know and honestly I didn’t want to either when if finally dawned on me! I feel that the majority of these folks have an attitude I find appalling – they have no empathy for something they ‘own’. Combined with the lack of anything resembling a backbone and/or maturity, the most innocent and vulnerable often die at their hands.
I think in some ways the lack of maturity and empathy feeds itself to the cause you’re fighting as well; for if they really listened to that the voice of conscience and had empathy they’d know what they do is wrong. The ‘love’ they show is the flame that destroys a child’s innocence, self-esteem, and self-image! But instead a lot of those parasites tend to silence their conscience to a point that if their conscience ever gained a lion’s roar it would summon the guilt that would destroy them.
It would take a lot for some people to realize that just because they were ‘raised that way’ makes it okay. Perhaps a lot of these folks need to the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran:
“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.”
For the cycle doesn’t stop unless the person takes that first step to break it.
Sorry for preachin’ to the choir here…
February 8th, 2010 at 6:13 am
It would take a lot for some people to realize that just because they were ‘raised that way’ makes it okay.
Make that:
It would take a lot for some people to realize that just because they were ‘raised that way’ does not make it okay.
Sorry for the typo – long night and I’m sleepy.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Love the quote!!!
February 7th, 2010 at 2:38 am
Proof that being a soldier does not automatically make you a hero.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:25 am
amen to that sara
February 7th, 2010 at 12:35 am
Shit, these most recent articles are hitting kind of close to home. My dad didn’t watch child porn in front of us but he did watch plain old Playboy channel cheez. And then when I was about this poor girl’s age I too was punished for not saying my ABC’s, not by waterboarding, but by getting a belting. Now to read the linked to article.
February 7th, 2010 at 1:51 am
Absolute waste of air…and as for the girlfriend…they havent charged her with anything YET. i dont give a flying fuck if she called them this time…why didnt she call them before this? why didnt she call when he made that little girl sit in pee soaked clothes? she may not be that baby’s bio mom but for fucks sake, you see a child being hurt and you dont make that call??? what the fuck is wrong with her! oh wait…i know…she didnt birth that child so it was none of her business. bah, they are both worthless