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General’s sexual misconduct trial has tense backdrop
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/01/general%E2%80%99s-sexual-misconduct-trial-has-tense-backdrop
General’s sexual misconduct trial has tense backdrop
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
McClatchy/Tribune
© January 13, 2014
FORT BRAGG, N.C.
He called her “my panda” and “my baby.” She called him “papa panda sexy pants.”
They had a three-year affair in Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany and the United States, but they were hardly equals. She was a junior officer assigned to his staff. He was a one-star general.
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair now stands accused of sexually assaulting the woman, a captain, who says he forced her to engage in oral sex after she tried to break off their affair.
The general is also charged with threatening to kill the captain and her family, sexually harassing other female officers, abusing his government credit card, and possessing alcohol and pornography in a war zone.