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...should bear any responsibility for their behavior. Here we have women who are 18 years of age, considered mature, yet apparently they cannot be held responsible for their decisions involving sex. Carissa Schaper chose to lie about her medical condition and become involved in an affair with a married sergeant, yet she is treated strictly as a victim. Policies that protect women from accountability are unfair to both sexes, and will probably have a divisive influence in the years to come. CHRISTOPHER C. HEARD Nashville, Tenn...
CONVICTED. DELMAR SIMPSON, 32, Army drill sergeant whose controversial trial for raping six trainees exposed the combustive interplay of sex and power in the Army's ranks; of 18 counts of rape; in Aberdeen, Md. Rejecting Simpson's defense that the sex was consensual, the six-person military jury sent an unequivocal message that any sexual relations between superiors and subordinates constitute rape. Simpson faces up to life in prison...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland: Ignoring the prosecution's request to give Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson life behind bars, a court-martial jury sentenced the former drill sergeant to 25 years in prison. Jurors also ordered that Simpson be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private E-1. The prosecution made an impassioned plea for jurors to deliver the maximum penalty of life in prison, arguing that it would "send a message" to other military personnel. Incredibly, Simpson's defense attorney, Frank Spinner, countered that Simpson's exposure had taught him a lesson and that the jury should...
...sergeant at another recruiting station repeatedly harassed a 16-year-old high school freshman. At one point, the investigator concluded, he "grabbed" her and made her so upset she missed a quarter of her classes, contributing to a failing grade in algebra. "The Army image is now tainted in one of the more productive schools," said the investigator. "It could take years for the damage to disappear...
Despite rules forbidding any romantic relationships between recruiters and recruits, the Army has until now failed to enforce that ban with the intensity it has shown in denouncing the abuse at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Last week a military jury there began deliberating whether to convict Sergeant Delmar Simpson of raping six female trainees under his command 19 times. One issue in his case is whether he used the sheer power of his position as a drill sergeant to intimidate women into submitting to him sexually. But recruiting stations present their own challenges to an Army trying to crack...