Aberdeen scandal

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The Aberdeen scandal was an affair in 1996 that developed after the rape and sexual harassment of female recruits by male instructors at the Aberdeen Proving Ground , a United States Army training facility in Maryland .

The US Army opened an investigation after a recruit reported a case of sexual harassment at the training base at Aberdeen Proving Ground in September 1996. On November 7, 1996, then Chief of Staff of the Army Dennis Reimer announced that five instructors had been charged with various forms of sexual harassment of female soldiers under their supervision. The officer Derrick Robertson and Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson were among others for rape and obstruction of justice before the military court found. Staff Sergeant Nathanael Beech was charged with improper relationships with subordinates. Two other trainers were tried out of court and accused of improper behavior. Fifteen other instructors from the Aberdeen Proving Ground have been suspended.

Robertson, the senior soldier charged, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in March 1997 and released from the military after pleading guilty of " sodomy " and adultery , among other things . In return for the admission of guilt, the military prosecutors dropped the rape charges.

Staff Sergeant Simpson was found guilty of 18 rape cases of six female recruits and 29 other crimes of predominantly sexual nature between 1995 and 1996 after a two-week trial in April 1997 by a six-member jury. In May 1997 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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  2. ↑ Bradley Graham: Army Trainers Face Sex Abuse, Rape Charges . In: Washington Post , November 8, 1996.
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  6. ↑ Alex Dominguez: Army sex scandal hot line drawing calls from all four military branches . In: The Associated Press , November 12, 1996.
  7. ↑ 51 Recruits Now Allege Sex Abuse At Md. Base The Bulk Of The Charges Center On Three Officers At The Army's Aberdeen School . In: The Baltimore Sun , December 14, 1996.
  8. ^ Terri S. Nelson: For love of country: confronting rape and sexual harassment in the US military . Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7890-1221-9 , p. 88 .
  9. ^ Greg E. Norman: Army Sex Scandal Figure Pleads Guilty . In: Los Angeles Times , March 21, 1997.
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  11. ↑ Gerard J. De Groot and CM Peniston-Bird: A soldier and a woman: sexual integration in the military . Pearson Education, New York 2000, ISBN 0-582-41439-3 , p. 349 .

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