Montana Man Pleads Guilty To Waterboarding Kids - Spokane, North Idaho News & Weather KHQ.com

Montana Man Pleads Guilty To Waterboarding Kids

Posted: Updated:

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana man has pleaded guilty to charges that he waterboarded four boys.
    
William Albert Province made a plea deal with prosecutors in which he admitted to four misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
    
District Judge James B. Wheelis sentenced the 42-year-old Jefferson County man to two years' probation.
    
The plea deal called for prosecutors to drop felony charges that included making threats against public officials.
    
Prosecutors say Province simulated drowning the four boys by pouring water over their faces.
    
The children have not been identified. The Independent Record reports (http://bit.ly/ZFNvHL ) prosecution for partner or family member assault was deferred as part of the plea deal.
    
Jefferson County Attorney Mathew Johnson says the plea agreement was reached after a review of the evidence.
    

(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

  • Most Popular StoriesMost Popular Stories

  • Tuesday, May 21 2013 1:43 PM EDT2013-05-21 17:43:51 GMT
    BREAKING NEWS - The Medical Examiner's Office has revised the death toll in the Moore, Oklahoma tornado from 91 people to at least 24 people.
    UPDATE: Originally the death toll was reported to be 91 people and counting, however, the Medical examiner's office revised the death toll from the Oklahoma tornado to at least 24 people. A spokeswoman said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm.

  • Tuesday, May 21 2013 3:46 PM EDT2013-05-21 19:46:46 GMT
    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The father of an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy says a teacher saved his son's life as a tornado tore into their school yesterday.
    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The father of an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy says a teacher saved his son's life as a tornado tore into their school yesterday.

  • Tuesday, May 21 2013 3:31 PM EDT2013-05-21 19:31:19 GMT
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla.
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Meteorologists contacted by The Associated Press used real time measurements to calculate the energy released during the storm's life span of almost an hour.