Police: Michigan man accused of waterboarding 5-year-old boy

[Omaha Steve]

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]

1. What's the big deal? The government says that's A. O.K. Lets just call it

"Enhanced Behavior Modification." It's a necessary tool in the war on misbehavior.

[rpannier]

8. My first thought

Don't know what everyone is so worked up about

[KansDem]

11. Water-board him? Hell, don't he know he should've milk-boarded him?

What's wrong with parents these days?

[Roy Rolling]

2. That'll teach them to be better Patriots n/t

[jtuck004]

3. But did he get any actionable intelligence? n/t

[jmowreader]

12. He revealed mom's boyfriend is a child abuser

[jtuck004]

13. People suggest that as the dinosaurs die off, things will get better. I don't think they will

get better until we quit teaching people to hurt.

[Doctor_J]

19. The child confessed to the JFK assassination AND the Lindbergh kidnapping

as well as having an extra cookie after school

[SummerSnow]

4. possibly a Cheney fan. He needs his ass kicked.

[Renew Deal]

5. Torture will not help find the Lorna Doones

[riversedge]

6. That poor kid. MY god , what is with people

who treat helpless young kids like that!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Don't lie to me kid ...

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]

9. Becker says police were notified after school officials noticed the boy acting differently.

[Solly Mack]

10. I'm sure it was done in "good faith".

[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]

14. Where's Jr Gitmo?

[Demeter]

15. An event like that can spoil the day for years

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]

16. I don't understand why the name of this abuser is witheld.

Is it common in Michigan not to release the name of someone charged with criminal counts?

[Sunlei]

17. He tortured the 12 year old also. They should release his name, this man has a violent history.

[Volaris]

18. This isn't the first time this has happened post-9/11..

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]

20. I find many responses here offensive given that this is horrific child abuse.

Really, is nothing sacred that we can joke about a child being tortured? I think some should self delete.