Oh my God, they finally figured out she was a GIRL, and not a WOMAN!

[LittleClarkie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_on_re_us/soldiers_charged

"LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A former soldier in the 101st Airborne Division was indicted Thursday in the rape and death of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the slayings of three of her relatives last March.

Former Army private Steven D. Green, 21, was charged with murder, aggravated sexual assault and conspiracy, among other offenses, in the federal indictment. If convicted, Green could face life in prison or the death penalty, a Justice Department statement said.

Green's defense attorney, Patrick J. Bouldin, said that he hadn't seen the indictment but that his client intends to plead not guilty and "firmly stands behind that plea."

The incident occurred March 12 in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, a village about 20 miles south of Baghdad, where Green was stationed with the division's 502nd Infantry Regiment."

[eleny]

1. Oh, how often this was pointed out around here

At last.

I'm so glad you found this as it always troubled me. Being 14 was long ago for me now. But I we know full well what it means to be only 14.

[LittleClarkie]

2. I know. I even wrote my local newspaper and asked them

if they were trying to cover for the rapist by not admitting that he raped a child. Rape is heinous indeed, regardless. But the uproar would have been greater if folks would have known it was a child and her family that had been victimized so calculatingly.