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Trial postponed for retired Army two-star facing charges of rape and incest

By: Todd South

(PIC) Retired Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene leaves the courtroom at Fort Meade, Md., with his wife and attorney after an August 2017 Article 32 hearing on charges of rape. (Todd South/Staff)


The incest and rape trial of a retired Army two-star general in a Virginia civilian court has been postponed until September.


Retired Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene, 69, faced an Article 32 hearing on charges he had repeatedly raped his daughter at various military postings in the United States and Germany in the 1980s. The military charges were dropped due to statute of limitations issues within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.


In late 2018, a grand jury in Prince William County, Virginia, returned an indictment on rape and incest charges related to three counts of incest that allegedly occurred between August 1987 and May 1988 while Grazioplene and his family lived in the jurisdiction. The family lived in off-post housing in Woodbridge, Virginia at the time.


Prince William County has no statute of limitations on rape.