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David Frodsham was a top civilian commander at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan when Army commanders ordered him home after investigating multiple complaints of sexual harassment.
"I would not recommend placing him back into a position of authority but rather pursuing disciplinary actions at his home station," wrote one commanding officer when recommending that the Army order Frodsham to leave his post at Bagram Airfield and return to Fort Huachuca, a major Army installation in Arizona, according to a U.S. Army investigative file obtained by The Associated Press.
But when Frodsham returned to his home station in the fall of 2015, he rejoined the Network Enterprise Technology Command, the Army's information technology service provider, where he had served as director of personnel for a global command of 15,000 soldiers and civilians, according to his Army resume.
By spring of the following year, he was arrested in Arizona for leading a child sex abuse ring that included an Army sergeant who was posting child pornography to the internet. The victims included one of Frodsham's adopted sons. Frodsham pleaded guilty to sex abuse charges in 2016 and is serving a 17-year sentence.
But records reviewed by the AP show that the U.S. Army and the state of Arizona missed or ignored several red flags over more than a decade, which allowed Frodsham to allegedly abuse his adopted son and other children for years, practices that made him vulnerable to blackmail.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-frodsham-civilian-army-leader-child-porn-ring-risked-us-security/
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Darwins_Retriever
(853 posts)What is strange, Huachuca is the location of the Intelligence school where Counterintelligence Agents train up and coming counterintelligence agents. CI agents are very good investigators, the CID (Criminal Investigation Division) and MPs are not. Oh by the way, that is where I graduated from and became a CI Agent, I might be biased. But CID agents are not bright.
RockRaven
(14,915 posts)The article more correctly used "missed or ignored" while the headline grants the army undeserved credit by just using "missed" and secondly, they included a childhood picture of one of the then-minor victims. That's creepy as hell.
Chainfire
(17,474 posts)It that code talk for CIA or some other alphabet agency?
haele
(12,640 posts)Most technical organizations in the DoD are run by civilian SES (Senior Executive Service) members to maintain a "corporate knowledge" of a high dollar program or organization.
They're typically considered the equivalents of O-4 to O-6, and usually have PhDs or Masters degrees in some form of Management.
Haele