Posted on 03/20/2013 11:04:53 AM PDT by Jyotishi
San Antonio - A military judge sentenced Air Force instructor Staff Sgt. Eddy Soto to four years in prison for raping a female trainee at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, where he worked.
Lt. Col. Matthew Van Dalen also sentenced Soto to a dishonorable discharge after convicting him of rape Saturday during a court-martial at Lackland.
More than 30 Lackland instructors have been investigated in the military sex scandal.
Soto was the ninth trainer convicted in the scandal and sentenced to prison or hard labor.
Van Dalen acquitted Soto on charges of aggravated sexual assault and wrongful sexual contact.
Soto previously pleaded guilty to five counts, including having had sex with a female trainee and with the wife of a male trainee.
four years for rape.
Yep Lackland is basic training in the AF. These arses should be strung up.
I spent an extra 8 months on Lackland to go through my AF tech school. Its was a target rich environment so I cannot imagine why these guys felt it necessary to abuse their position.
Thirty people were scooped up by the net!?
Was it “rape rape?”
convicted so likely so.
Since they were in a position of authority over the ladies or their husbands it was probably determined to be rape. From what I understand they might have also traded favors and good treatment for sex.
There’s a lot of hanky panky going on. When I was going through basic they caught people all the time, never with a drill instructor though.
I was being facetious - a play on Whoopie Goldbergs comments about whether Roman Polanski committed “rape rape.”
Raping an American soldier should be considered an act of treason, punishable by death.
Now ... 4 years in prison for forcible rape, particularly with the aggravating circumstance of being in a supervisory or command position with respect to the victim, is outrageous. The perp could have gotten more for selling pot.
Van Dalen acquitted Soto on charges of aggravated sexual assault and wrongful sexual contact.
Soto previously pleaded guilty to five counts, including having had sex with a female trainee and with the wife of a male trainee.
He had sex with female trainees and the wife of a trainee which is a crime in the military. That is soooo dishonorable. Don’t anyone tell Bill Clinton or his kneepad girls in the media or at NOW.
The military already has their own set of laws to deal with the actions of soldiers.
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