Utah couple accused of waterboarding daughter as punishment
Source: Associated Press
Updated 4:30 pm CST, Monday, December 17, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah couple is accused of waterboarding their 9-year-old daughter as a form of punishment.
The girl told police that her father and stepmother tied her hands and then placed a towel over her face, held her down in a bathtub and poured water on the towel, according to probable cause statement filed by police last week.
The girl said she couldn't breathe during the waterboarding that occurred three times in their home in Provo, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City.
She also said she suffered other abuse, including being slapped by her stepmother in the face, causing a nose bleed, the documents show.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Utah-couple-accused-of-punishing-daughter-with-13472404.php
Fox 13 Salt Lake City, Utah:
PROVO, Utah -- A biological mother learned her daughter was allegedly the victim of waterboarding as a punishment from her guardians.
The nine-year-old girl’s father and stepmother were arrested by Provo police Thursday on accounts of child abuse.
The little girl’s mother, Brittany Calabrese said she hasn’t seen her daughter since 2014, but learning that the girl's father and his wife were abusing her, was heartbreaking.
“It was the hardest thing for me to hear having to be in Texas,” said Calabrese. “She’s nine, nine years old. That is torture of a child.”
More:
https://fox13now.com/2018/12/15/mother-in-shock-after-daughter-in-utah-alleged-victim-of-waterboarding-as-punishment-by-her-father/
(It's good to see a Fox tv station having to publish someone's claim that waterboarding is torture.)
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Absolutely heartbreaking. I can't stand hearing of a child or an animal being abused like that.
