Father, stepmother repeatedly punished 9-year-old daughter by tying her up and waterboarding her in a bathtub
A Utah couple decided to waterboard their 9-year-old daughter as some sick form of punishment, according to the authorities. 29-year-old Joseph Maeser Mitchell and his 28-year-old wife Ilaria Catherina Mitchell were arrested and then charged with one count of felony child abuse.
According to the police report which was obtained by Gephardt Daily, "The nine-year-old disclosed that her father, Joseph Mitchell, and her stepmother, Ilaria Mitchell, have punished her three separate times by putting a towel over her face and pouring water on it. The girl went into detail saying that Joseph and Ilaria would take her to the bathroom and tie her hands behind her back. They would then hold her down in the bathtub and place a towel over her face and pour water on it."