Airman pleads guilty to sexual misconduct in Osan dorm

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Airman pleads guilty to sexual misconduct in Osan dorm
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, April 11, 2008

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — An airman faces up to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to sexual misconduct with a woman in a dorm at Osan Air Base.

Senior Airman Joshua L. Amundson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit indecent acts, indecent acts and adultery in a trial going forward before military judge Maj. Charles Wiedie. The airman also faces a possible dishonorable discharge and loss of pay and rank.

Amundson, of Osan’s 51st Munitions Squadron, pleaded not guilty to rape, sexual assault and housebreaking.

His court-martial is the second to arise from a Feb. 11, 2007, incident. In a January trial, Senior Airman Gabriel R. Contreras was sentenced to one year in prison, a dishonorable discharge, reduction in rank to E-1 and forfeiture of pay for encouraging Amundson to allegedly rape the sleeping woman. In that trial, Amundson testified he had sexual intercourse with the woman but that it was consensual.

Central to both cases is testimony that Contreras had consensual sex with the woman in her dorm room after a night of drinking. The woman fell asleep and Contreras encouraged Amundson to come with him to the woman’s room for a possible sexual threesome.


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