Flint man accused of waterboarding 5-year-old charged with child abuse

[kpete]

Flint man accused of waterboarding 5-year-old charged with child abuse
by Stephanie Parkinson
Posted: 05.18.2015 at 12:01 PM

A Flint man was arraigned in court today on multiple charges of child abuse after police say he performed waterboarding on a 5-year-old boy.

30-year-old Michael Porter has been charged with unlawful imprisonment, second degree child abuse, second degree child abuse in the presence of another child, assault with a dangerous weapon, and third degree child abuse.

Porter is accused of restraining his girlfriend's five-year-old son with belts, leaning him back over a footstool and pouring water on the boy's face, which was covered in underwear. This is known as "waterboarding" and simulates drowning. Police say this was done because the child ripped his backpack.

Both the five-year-old and his 12-year-old brother have been removed from the home.

I guess in today's America, this is ok?:
http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=1206014#.VVtfPtpVhHw

[DetlefK]

1. Come on. It was just a frathouse-prank.

Like putting somebody on a leash or piling people up or hanging them in shackles on a wall.

It's good thing that the US has prosecuted all the soldiers and the agents and the officers and the generals and the psychologists who enabled torture for war-crimes.
They did, right? Otherwise one might get the impression that the legality of torture in the US depends on who does it...