Police: Michigan man accused of waterboarding 5-year-old boy
Source: AP
MOUNT MORRIS, Mich. (AP) A Michigan man is facing child abuse charges after authorities say he restrained his girlfriend's 5-year-old son with belts, leaned him back over a footstool and poured water down his underwear-covered face.
The Flint Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1IGc68d ) that the 30-year-old man from Mount Morris, near Flint, also is accused of prodding the woman's 12-year-old son in the chest and throat with a knife.
The man was arrested on eight counts. His name hasn't been released.
Police Chief Keith Becker says both boys were removed from the home. He says their mother hasn't been charged in the ongoing investigation.
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Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)"Enhanced Behavior Modification." It's a necessary tool in the war on misbehavior.
rpannier
(24,350 posts)Don't know what everyone is so worked up about
KansDem
(28,498 posts)What's wrong with parents these days?
Roy Rolling
(6,943 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)jmowreader
(50,594 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)get better until we quit teaching people to hurt.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)as well as having an extra cookie after school
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Renew Deal
(81,899 posts)riversedge
(70,447 posts)who treat helpless young kids like that!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,382 posts)did you or did you not eat those chocolate-chip cookies?
We have ways ...
Hopefully the kids will land in a stable, loving home. And the boyfriend land in a different kind of place.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)Solly Mack
(90,801 posts)[font color="white"]Of course it's horrible. ALL torture is horrible. But spare me your outrage over one victim if you're no longer outraged by the torture committed by the U.S. government. You know, the "good faith" spouting pieces of garbage that got away with it. [/font]
marble falls
(57,502 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)I hope that this is the worst thing that ever happens to that poor child...he's earned the right to a better life.
asharpwone
(27 posts)Is it common in Michigan not to release the name of someone charged with criminal counts?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Volaris
(10,278 posts)If this clown is convicted of abuse by a criminal court proceeding, cold that be used as evidence that war crimes were comitted? I can't imagine the Judicial Branch as a whole, being of 2 minds about this..,saying it's not OK to do this kid, but if the Vice President says it's ok, then who are we to disagree,?
whenever there is a dispute over the consequences of interpretation of a Law, it's usual for the SC to issue a ruling one way or the other. If it's OK for Cheney to do it, wouldn't the charges also have to be dropped against this kid abuser as well??
Go, Bernie, Go...
yellowcanine
(35,704 posts)Really, is nothing sacred that we can joke about a child being tortured? I think some should self delete.