Instructor for Air Force Is Convicted in Sex Assaults

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

By JAMES DAO
Published: July 20, 2012

A military jury on Friday convicted an instructor at Lackland Air Force Base of raping one female trainee and sexually assaulting several others, the first major case in a sex scandal that has rocked the Air Force’s basic training system.

The jury of two officers and five enlisted airmen found Staff Sgt. Luis Walker guilty on 28 counts, including adultery, violating regulations and committing sexual crimes against female trainees, most of whom reported to him at Lackland, in San Antonio, the Air Force’s lone basic training school.

He faces up to life in prison and a dishonorable discharge when the trial moves into the sentencing phase.

At least 11 other instructors in the Air Force’s basic training system, nine from the same squadron, are under investigation in the widening case, which is the focus not only of a criminal probe but also a major policy review by a two-star general. At least 31 female recruits have been identified as possible victims.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/us/lackland-air-force-base-instructor-guilty-of-sex-assaults.html

[scarletwoman]

1. Good news. (nt)

[USMCMustang]

2. Jerks

These kids didn't enlist to be abused. Not all military people are heroes. I had some attractive females working for me, but never would I have violated the principles of leadership. Yes. She is attractive, but your job is to train them to keep them alive when they are in the shit. The same in the civilian world--look but don't touch.

Fuckers

[Skittles]

6. I was in the military

do I strike you as some kind of subservient gal??? When I was an airman a sergeant tried pawing me and I smashed him in the face with a stapler.

[Skittles]

10. your description of what you thought the military would be like

was really far off the mark

[freshwest]

11. Thank you and good bye.

[Skittles]

12. LOL

you poor thang

[Marrah_G]

17. Good for you!

[Odin2005]

3. BRAVO!

[DURHAM D]

4. I wish I thought this would lead to a new day in the military

but I know it won't...

[rocktivity]

7. That was quick. Well, NEXT!

Or is he the designated "move along, nothing more to see here" scapegoat:


rocktivity

[orbitalman]

8. Considering the well-known knowledge that the AF actively engages in evangelistic fundamentalism...

expectations of peers, can you be surprised?? And, the republican sexual mentality? They are really filthy to the core.

[Bosso 63]

15. Not surprised, I think there is a connection.

[DCKit]

13. The end of the teenage pussy train. nt

[Beacool]

14. Good!!!

But this is a case of one down and hundreds to go. Sexual harassment and abuse is endemic in the military. I hope that it's not a case of making an example of one person, but nothing really changes. Women in the military have a right to deserve better.

[lunatica]

16. Every step that women take forward in their rights

They have to fight this same war. If some men think these crimes will go unnoticed or unsolved they're wrong.

[Eugene]

18. U.S. Air Force staff sergeant gets 20 years for rape, sex assault

Source: Reuters

U.S. Air Force staff sergeant gets 20 years for rape, sex assault

By Jim Forsyth
SAN ANTONIO | Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:45pm EDT

(Reuters) - A drill instructor accused of raping and sexually assaulting 10 female trainees at Lackland Air Force Base was sentenced on Saturday to 20 years in prison, the stiffest jail term handed down yet in the biggest sex scandal to hit the U.S. military since the 1990s.

Staff Sergeant Luis Walker, found guilty by a military jury on Friday of 28 charges, was ordered to be reduced to lowest rank in the Air Force, to forfeit all pay and allowances, and given a dishonorable discharge. He will also have to register as a sex offender.

Walker took the stand and asked for leniency, saying he did not want to miss his two small boys growing up. He displayed little emotion when the sentence was read, but his relatives, who have remained in the small courtroom throughout the five-day court-martial, began to cry.

The seven-member panel of six men and one woman declined to give him the maximum sentence of life in prison. The jury also had the option of sentencing him to probation instead of prison time. The Uniform Code of Military Justice includes the possibility of parole.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/21/us-usa-military-sex-idUSBRE86J1E320120721