The suggestion that had she lived today, the teenager would have been a "belieber" - a termused by his devoted fans to describe themselves - generated thousands of horrified responses on social networking websites.
But it was during a follow-up police interview with the child on Monday that she made the allegation that her father had "waterboarded" her as punishment, a termshe said he used, according to police.
"I've spent a lot of the last month going round a lot of university maths departments and speaking to the professors and to the students... and theterm grade inflation is a term which is referenced and it is used constantly, " she said.