Army officer to be confined for 100 days for assaulting daughter, 14 By Ashley Rowland, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, January 26, 2008
YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — A court-martial jury on Thursday reprimanded a U.S. Army officer and gave him 100 days of confinement for assaulting his 14-year-old daughter twice last year after learning she had lost her virginity to her 17-year-old boyfriend.
The officer, a 20-year Army veteran, was convicted Thursday of two counts of assault on a child under 16 years old — a lesser included specification of the original charge of indecent acts with a child.
The five-member panel deliberated for 4½ hours before finding the officer not guilty on four specifications of another assault charge for allegedly beating his daughter in the days after learning she had slept with her boyfriend, and of allegedly leaving bruises on his 4-year-old son’s buttocks after spanking him with a half-closed fist.
“I’m going to stay in the military, which is the best thing,” the officer told Stripes after his sentence was announced. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges, and apologized to his superiors and his family before the jury began deliberating his sentence.
“This has been a scar that will stay with you the rest of your lives,” he said.
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