clipped from www.nydailynews.com U.S. soldier Joshua Taber waterboards his daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet: police By Brian Kates DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A GI waterboarded his 4-year-old daughter in their suburban Tacoma, Wash., home because she couldn't recite the alphabet, police reported. Joshua Tabor, 27, allegedly admitted to police he used the torture technique because his daughter was terrified of water and he was furious she didn't know her ABCs. Tabor was arrested Sunday and charged with assault of a child. Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Wash., told police he held the little girl's head backward in a sink of water, Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil told the the local newspaper, the Nisqually Valley News. Stancil said Tabor had admitted to using this means of punishment three to four times.