Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials on base say they first became aware of the problems there in early September, when Private Jessica Bleckley complained that Staff Sergeant Nathanael Beach of the 143rd Battalion's Charlie Company had sexually assaulted her. Her protest unleashed a volley of other allegations, mostly involving Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson, a 12-year Army veteran. According to Army documents, he told a trainee, "If anyone finds out about me having sex with you, I'll kill you." In the wake of such threats, the Army decided to jail Simpson two months ago, pending a court-martial. Simpson now faces...
...damage they may have done, though, is permanent. Bleckley, in an interview with TIME, describes being terrorized by both Beach and Simpson and humiliated at the hands of the Army. Still, she is proud she came forward. "People don't need to go through what I went through," she says...
There were also hints of trouble at Aberdeen long before Simpson was locked up. Lieut. Colonel Martin Utzig, commander of the 143rd, formally scolded him in January for jabbing a female recruit (superiors are not allowed to touch subordinates in training) and transferred him from Bravo to Alpha Company. And another drill sergeant with the 143rd was booted from the service earlier in Utzig's tenure for inappropriately touching a female student. This may have led Utzig and others to believe the problems were being properly handled, but it could also have masked a more serious breakdown in the chain...
...jaunty O.J. Simpson tacked through the usual media flotilla waiting outside the pastel-colored government building last Tuesday. He brightened when a young Hispanic man asked for his autograph. But once inside, away from the cameras, Simpson lowered his head and heaved a deep sigh. For this wasn't the Santa Monica courthouse where he's been spending most of the past two months defending himself in the wrongful-death civil suit brought by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. This was the start of yet another trial, in an Orange County courthouse 40 miles away, where...
...cases. There is no jury. Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock will be the only one to decide whether Sydney, 11, and Justin, 8, should live with their father, or remain with their maternal grandparents, Lou and Juditha Brown. The children have been living with the Browns ever since Simpson was arrested in June 1994. After his acquittal on murder charges last October, he began spending some weekends with them, then in June decided to seek sole custody. The Browns are fighting him because they believe Simpson killed their daughter...