Officer’s daughter alleges he molested her

[unhappycamper]

Officer’s daughter alleges he molested her
By Ashley Rowland, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, January 25, 2008

YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — A 15-year-old girl testified Wednesday in a court-martial that her father, a U.S. Army officer, beat her repeatedly and molested her twice last year after she told him that she lost her virginity to a fellow high school student.

But civilian defense attorney Michael Waddington said there were inconsistencies in her statements to investigators and a doctor, and she was on an overnight church trip to an amusement park on the night she told investigators that one of the beatings occurred.

Waddington said the girl — then 14 — was angry at her parents for forbidding her from seeing an older boyfriend.

“These are probably the most serious charges you could level against an Army officer and a father,” Waddington said of the court-martial.

The officer is charged with four counts of assault on a child under 16, and two counts of indecent acts with a child.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51886

[lynnertic]

1. wow - either way, this family is broken.