Military Rape: Cover-Ups And Conflicts Of Interest
Article 3 reports:
Senior Army Officer, Brigadier General Jeremy A. Sinclair, was essentially slapped on the wrist after pleading guilty to massively reduced charges in what was perhaps the military’s most closely watched sexual assault case. The general’s sentence was announced on March 20th.
In exchange for pleading guilty to the abridged charges, which included disobeying a commander’s order and misuse of a government charge card, the prosecutors agreed to dismiss far more serious charges.
The charges being dropped involve accusations that he forced a female captain, who served as his Arabic-speaking adviser in the Army, to perform oral sex and even threatened to kill her family. According to the accuser, he also groped her on an airplane in plain view of other Army soldiers.
