U.S. Army to decide fate of decorated Green Beret who fought sexual abuse of Afghan boy by March 1
- 8 years ago
KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN — A decorated Green Beret is waiting for the U.S. Army's final ruling on whether he will be discharged from the service for having taken the side of a boy abused by an Afghan police commander, Fox News reported.
The decision is expected on March 1.
The incident occurred in 2011 at a remote military camp in Kunduz, Afghanistan, where Sergeant First Class Charles Martland was stationed.
A 12-year-old Afghan boy and his mother went to the camp, and told Martlan that the boy had been sexually assaulted by an area police commander named Abdul Rahman. The boy showed that his hands had been tied up during the rape.
A doctor, with the help of an interpreter, visited the boy, who once again detailed the abuse he had been submitted to.
Once police commander Rahman learned about the mother and boy's confession to the U.S. Army soldiers, he allegedly beat the boy's mother.
In response, Martland and his then-detachment commander Captain Daniel Quinn decided to confront Rahman, who eventually confessed to the crime, laughing it off. This is when Martland and Quinn pushed Rahman to the ground and threw him out of the military base.
After Rahman reported the incident to another Army unit, however, Quinn and Martland
were disciplined and pulled from their assignments.
"What's equally disturbing are reports that the military has allowed Afghanistan forces to sexually abuse young children on U.S. bases," Jay Sekulow, of the American Center for Law and Justice, told Fox News.
A petition online started by Martland's supporters, together with 93 members of Congress, calls for an investigation into the Army's silence about child sexual abuse in Afghanistan.
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The decision is expected on March 1.
The incident occurred in 2011 at a remote military camp in Kunduz, Afghanistan, where Sergeant First Class Charles Martland was stationed.
A 12-year-old Afghan boy and his mother went to the camp, and told Martlan that the boy had been sexually assaulted by an area police commander named Abdul Rahman. The boy showed that his hands had been tied up during the rape.
A doctor, with the help of an interpreter, visited the boy, who once again detailed the abuse he had been submitted to.
Once police commander Rahman learned about the mother and boy's confession to the U.S. Army soldiers, he allegedly beat the boy's mother.
In response, Martland and his then-detachment commander Captain Daniel Quinn decided to confront Rahman, who eventually confessed to the crime, laughing it off. This is when Martland and Quinn pushed Rahman to the ground and threw him out of the military base.
After Rahman reported the incident to another Army unit, however, Quinn and Martland
were disciplined and pulled from their assignments.
"What's equally disturbing are reports that the military has allowed Afghanistan forces to sexually abuse young children on U.S. bases," Jay Sekulow, of the American Center for Law and Justice, told Fox News.
A petition online started by Martland's supporters, together with 93 members of Congress, calls for an investigation into the Army's silence about child sexual abuse in Afghanistan.
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