Posted on Jul 9, 2020
Retired two-star Army general pleads guilty to sexually abusing his daughter
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To make matters worse is that the mother knew what was happening and she is still married to him!
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HoHow is he a retired 2 star? Even without Court Martial (which is ridiculous IMHO) he still should have been busted down to the highest rank in which he honorably served. Which I'm guessing was around 2 LT in the 80s.
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Plea deal it sounds like:
"Retired Army Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene on Wednesday admitted to sexually abusing his then-teenage daughter in the 1980s, in exchange for a suspension of his sentence."
"Grazioplene pleaded guilty in a Prince William County, Virginia, circuit court to aggravated sexual battery. He has been in jail for approximately 18 months. He was expected to be released on Wednesday and will serve 20 years of probation, according to Elmore's lawyer, Ryan Guilds."
Actually no this is why he didn't lose any rank:
"Elmore first reported to Army officials in 2015 that her father had repeatedly molested and raped her throughout her childhood. The military launched an investigation and found enough evidence -- even 30 years later -- to move toward a trial in 2017. Two weeks before the trial was set to begin, as Elmore sat in a courtroom preparing with prosecutors to testify, the top military appeals court defied three decades of precedent and found a five-year statute of limitations existed for sexual assault in the military -- if the assault occurred before 2006. The US Supreme Court has accepted a Justice Department appeal to review that decision.
Elmore's case was subsequently dismissed from the military court.
Elmore then pushed for the case to proceed in the commonwealth of Virginia, where there is no statute of limitations for a felony offense."
There's a statute of limitations in the military and they used that despite precedent I guess. He got a guilty plea in civilian court.
"Retired Army Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene on Wednesday admitted to sexually abusing his then-teenage daughter in the 1980s, in exchange for a suspension of his sentence."
"Grazioplene pleaded guilty in a Prince William County, Virginia, circuit court to aggravated sexual battery. He has been in jail for approximately 18 months. He was expected to be released on Wednesday and will serve 20 years of probation, according to Elmore's lawyer, Ryan Guilds."
Actually no this is why he didn't lose any rank:
"Elmore first reported to Army officials in 2015 that her father had repeatedly molested and raped her throughout her childhood. The military launched an investigation and found enough evidence -- even 30 years later -- to move toward a trial in 2017. Two weeks before the trial was set to begin, as Elmore sat in a courtroom preparing with prosecutors to testify, the top military appeals court defied three decades of precedent and found a five-year statute of limitations existed for sexual assault in the military -- if the assault occurred before 2006. The US Supreme Court has accepted a Justice Department appeal to review that decision.
Elmore's case was subsequently dismissed from the military court.
Elmore then pushed for the case to proceed in the commonwealth of Virginia, where there is no statute of limitations for a felony offense."
There's a statute of limitations in the military and they used that despite precedent I guess. He got a guilty plea in civilian court.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
SFC (Join to see) right... That's why no court martial. But the reduction to last satisfactory rank is administrative...
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