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LTC Stephen F.
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Okay PO1 Tony Holland I hope the title was "No statute of limitations on child rape" not alleged child rape.
1. "the Army will hold a probable-cause hearing this weekend at Fort Meade, Md., to review evidence against Grazioplene. In April, the service announced in a terse statement that it had charged the retired general with six counts of rape of a minor but disclosed no other details. Army officials have declined to answer questions about the case since then. ...
The identity of the victim was redacted from the records. It is unclear what led the Army to open an investigation into the case three decades later. Under military law, there is no statute of limitations for rape."
2. Child rape encompasses statutory rape after all which can be "consenting" between an adult and a child.
3. When I was enlisted in 1974 one of my platoon mates married his wife when she was 14 and he was 15. They were from the hills where young marriages were not uncommon.
Personal background: I was molested and threatened with death by a pedophile before I was 10 years old in the early 1960s. I knew people who were convicted of statutory rape usually under the influence of drugs in the 1970s.
Now back to the bizarre case against James J. Grazioplene who retired as a MG in 2005. The unnamed victim ostensibly was raped repeatedly between 1984 and 1989 while then Maj/LTC James J. Grazioplene was assigned at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; Fort Bragg, N.C.; Amberg, Germany; Bindlach, Germany; and Woodbridge, Va..
This unnamed child accompanied or somehow managed to move wherever he went for six years.
I expect the charges are false and this is a result of his inspector general duties which caused trouble for a number of violators.
I hope the truth comes out a soon as possible. Hopefully those who dragged this up after 30 years will be held to scrutiny.
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SSG Robert Webster
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Isn't this article about 4 months overdue?
I would have sworn that this was also reported back in April by other media outlets, and there does not appear to be any new information in this one. Has something changed? If so, what has changed?
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SCPO Morris Ramsey
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PO1 Tony Holland When is the investigators report due.
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