LEARNING YOUR A, B, C'S

It's every ones desire to hear their child say their first words. Maybe it's daddy, or mommy or the most common first word NO. After that it's going on to the cute little things and even greater things like their ABC's. At what age do children do these things? Some do it early in life and some of course later.
In Tacoma, Washington an Army sergeant pleaded guilty to using water torture on his 4 year old daughter to force her to learn her ABC's. He is accused of pulling his daughter's head backward into the kitchen sink and letting water run onto her face because she would not recite her ABC's.
It's too bad that our laws do not allow for "an eye for an eye" and I hope mom was not there watching and doing nothing about it.