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...Helvey claims he was about to use a urinal in the public restroom when Schindler tapped him on the shoulder. Turning around, Helvey supposedly saw Schindler standing with his pants down and his penis exposed...
Assuming it's true, it is difficult to accept Helvey's excuse as justification for murder. If death is a legitimate punishment for sexual harassment, then the male naval officers who stripped, groped and molested women at the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas deserve...
...magnitude of its horror. The harassment he experienced while he was awaiting a discharge for being gay is hardly unusual. But Schindler's punishment for his sexual orientation was death: On the night of October 27, 1992, at a U.S. naval base in Japan, Airman Apprentice Terry Helvey fatally battered him against the toilet fixtures of a public restroom...
Furthermore, any argument of self-defense is questionable. Helvey's physical stature--newspapers described him as 6'4" and well-built--belies his assertion that he was "surprised and frightened" by Schindler's approach. His ability to brutally disfigure his victim underscores his strength. There were blood trails on the ground indicating that fSchindler had begun to escape from the restroom, only to be dragged back in for continued beating. This brutality far exceeds the so-called necessity of self-defense...
...Francisco four sailors and two Marines were sentenced to a year in jail after they pleaded guilty to beating a homosexual man lured from a bar, and seaman Terry Helvey was charged by the Navy in the bludgeoning murder of gay shipmate Allen Schindler near the U.S. naval base at Sasebo, Japan. Thus, even as opponents of Clinton's easing of restrictions against gay military personnel raised the specter of unrestrained homosexuals running rampant through their ranks, more tangible threats to military discipline were coming from the straight and narrow-minded already in uniform...