Word: aberdeen
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...ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Former Drill Sergeant Delmar Simpson stood straight at attention as a military juror quickly read the verdict against him: Guilty on 43 of 54 charges, including raping six trainees a total of 18 times. Although 11 other men face charges in the Aberdeen investigation, Simpson's was the most egregious case in the military's worst sex scandal since 1991's Tailhook. Jurors deliberated for five days to return a verdict which ultimately came down to a question of abusing authority: Did Simpson use the sheer power that a drill instructor wields over trainees to intimidate them...
...first full-fledged Army court-martial stemming from the sex scandal at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground begins this week, but three U.S. military personnel accused of sexual wrongdoing have already exacted the ultimate in self-inflicted punishment: suicide. Private Alan May, 22, hanged himself in his Aberdeen barracks on Jan. 4, three days before he was to face a rape charge. Staff Sergeant Michael Thompson, 31, of Fort Detrick, Maryland, took his life on Feb. 24, three days after being questioned by Army investigators about a female soldier's complaint that he had indecently assaulted her. The case involved...
PLEADED GUILTY. CAPTAIN DERRICK ROBERTSON, 31, to consensual sex, sodomy, adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer; in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Robertson, the first officer sentenced in the Aberdeen sex scandal, was booted out of the Army, and will serve four months in prison...
...ABERDEEN, Maryland: Army officials are denying claims by five white female army recruits at the Aberdeen Proving Ground who say they were pressured by military investigators to claim falsely that they were sexually abused by their superiors. "I agreed to tell them what they wanted to hear," said recruit Kathryn Leming, "in order that they leave me alone." Darla Hornberger, a 30-year-old private from Oklahoma, supported Leming's assertion, sayin g: "They put it down on paper. All I did was sign it. (They) had what they wanted in their heads and that's what they...
Hoster actually called the Army's harassment hotline in November but hung up without giving her name after a frustrating exchange with its untrained staff (such calls have sparked more than 1,100 Army criminal probes since last fall). About that same time, McKinney went to Aberdeen to tell the troops that the Army knows how to fight sexual harassment. "The system we have works," McKinney told them. And then he urged abused Army women to speak up. "If soldiers want to fix the issue," he said, "they must come forth...