A US soldier has been charged with assault after allegedly punishing his four-year-old daughter with water, police in Washington state have said.
Sgt Joshua Tabor dunked the girl's head in a sink full of water for not reciting the alphabet, police in the town of Yelm said.
Yelm police chief Todd Stancil said Sgt Tabor was arrested on 31 January.
The girl was then found hiding in a locked bathroom in the soldier's home, Mr Stancil said on Monday.
"From what I understand it is very similar to waterboarding," Mr Stancil said of the alleged offence, according to the AFP news agency.
"And to make it only worse, the daughter is afraid of water," the police chief told AFP.
