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Man sentenced for holding child's head under water
A soldier who held his 4-year-old daughter's head under water in a kitchen sink because she would not recite the alphabet has been sentenced to two months in jail.
The Associated Press
A soldier who held his 4-year-old daughter's head under water in a kitchen sink because she would not recite the alphabet has been sentenced to two months in jail.
The Olympian newspaper says 27-year-old Joshua Ryan Tabor was sentenced Thursday in Thurston County Superior Court. Tabor, a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier who lives in Yelm, earlier entered an Alford plea to three counts of third-degree felony assault of a child. Under an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but concedes there is enough evidence for conviction.
At the sentencing, prosecutors read a statement by a relative who now has custody of the girl, saying she has nightmares about her father trying to drown her and has suffered hearing loss caused by blows to the head.
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Information from: The Olympian, http://www.theolympian.com
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