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In reply to the discussion: Teacher gets 30 days jail for raping 14-year old student who later killed herself [View all]seabeyond
(110,159 posts)34. i do not know
what publication in UK is trash or not. here is one story but there is plenty of info out there. i had heard this from the beginning.
The 24-year-old private warned that he was in emotional anguish and was involved in a number of violent incidents after being deployed to Iraq but details of his behaviour were never passed up a chaotic chain-of-command, his court martial hearing was told.
Captain Casey Fulton, who served in the same unit, said on Sunday that during one late night shift in May 2010 she found Pte Manning pinned to the ground by his female superior, Specialist Jihrleah Showman.
"[Showman] said he had struck her and she had a big red welt on her face," Captain Fulton said.
The incident came weeks after Pte Manning sent an anguished email to a sergeant, where he said his gender identity issues left him unable to work or think and even attached a photograph of himself dressed as a woman. The young soldier, who was forced by military regulations to conceal his homosexuality, sometimes referred to himself as "Breanna".
But rather than alert his superiors, Master Sergeant Paul Adkins tried to deal with the situation himself, and only told his commanders of the email after Pte Manning was arrested at the end of May 2010, the court was told.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8964543/Bradley-Manning-attacked-female-soldier-and-sent-picture-of-himself-as-a-woman.html
Captain Casey Fulton, who served in the same unit, said on Sunday that during one late night shift in May 2010 she found Pte Manning pinned to the ground by his female superior, Specialist Jihrleah Showman.
"[Showman] said he had struck her and she had a big red welt on her face," Captain Fulton said.
The incident came weeks after Pte Manning sent an anguished email to a sergeant, where he said his gender identity issues left him unable to work or think and even attached a photograph of himself dressed as a woman. The young soldier, who was forced by military regulations to conceal his homosexuality, sometimes referred to himself as "Breanna".
But rather than alert his superiors, Master Sergeant Paul Adkins tried to deal with the situation himself, and only told his commanders of the email after Pte Manning was arrested at the end of May 2010, the court was told.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8964543/Bradley-Manning-attacked-female-soldier-and-sent-picture-of-himself-as-a-woman.html
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Teacher gets 30 days jail for raping 14-year old student who later killed herself [View all]
davidn3600
Aug 2013
OP
certainly can hear these men feeling it is their privilege, right to take... in these cases.
seabeyond
Aug 2013
#35
What?...You mean fourteen year old girls aren't the "equals" of 54 year old men?
whathehell
Aug 2013
#54
Good think he wasn't smoking a doobie when he did it! Then he'd be in REAL trouble!
KansDem
Aug 2013
#16
Unfortunately not. He's just a prime example of the "normal" anti-victim, anti-women mindset. n/t
SylviaD
Aug 2013
#25
The Telegraph is very right wing, so I don't take their stories at face value.
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#42
i know trashy is in the UK. hence me saying, a simple google will give plenty of sources.
seabeyond
Aug 2013
#44
manning is doing 35 yrs for something that has nothing to do with hitting a female officer.
seabeyond
Aug 2013
#45
look at the comment i originally replied to. argue that. that is the ONLY thing i made a statement
seabeyond
Aug 2013
#51