Army sergeant home from Iraq service accused of waterboarding 4-year-old daughter

It was only a matter of time before something like this happened:

An Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months has been restricted to his Washington military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to recite her ABCs.

Police responded to a report that the soldier had been storming up and down the street threatening neighbors. When they got to his house, they found the girl cowering in a bathroom.

[Yelm, Wash., police chief Todd] Stancil said that when the cops coaxed the little girl out of the bathroom they saw that she was covered in "multiple bruises pretty much all over her body."

"She was very open with us," Stancil said of the young girl, whose name is not being released because she is a minor. "She basically came right out and said, 'Daddy does this to me. He uses his hands.'"