DE Couple Accused of ‘Waterboarding’ Daughter

A Delaware couple have been arrested after a domestic assault investigation, during which their daughter accused them of “waterboarding” her.

FOX News Radio’s Courtney Kealy reports:

Dr. Melvin Morse, 58, and his wife Pauline face seven counts of reckless endangerent, child endangerment and conspiracy. Their daughter telling detectives that her father, who is an author of two books on near death experiences of children, and has appeared on ‘Oprah’ as an expert, disciplined her over a two year period with a method he called “waterboarding.” 

She said on at least four occasions he held her face under a running faucet as punishment while her mother watched. On another occasion he told her that she could go five minutes without brain damage.

Courtney Kealy, FOX News Radio.

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