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June 30th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Child Porn Lands UN Honor Guard Soldier In Jail

The crackdown on child porn in the military continues:

When Pvt. Francis Parker loaned his iPod to a fellow soldier last year as they guarded former U.S. Forces Korea commander Gen. B.B. Bell’s house, he was sharing more than music.

That iPod contained approximately 50 pictures of young girls, some half-dressed, others naked. After the soldier reported the pictures, investigators searched Parker’s barracks room at U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan and found about 110 video files of child pornography on his computer.

Parker, a member of the United Nations Honor Guard, was sentenced Tuesday to two years of imprisonment, given a dishonorable discharge and reduced in rank to E-1 for downloading and keeping the pictures between October 2006 and August 2007. He was also sentenced for having sexually explicit conversations online with young girls, sometimes after telling them that he was female, and for exposing himself and masturbating in front of them via webcam between January and June 2007.

Parker, 23, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography and six counts of taking indecent liberties and indecent communication with a child, as part of a plea bargain that capped his prison sentence at two years. Fourteen related counts were dropped. [Stars & Stripes]

Read the rest of the article but something I’m wondering is first of all how a soldier with two recent Article 15’s was allowed to re-enlist right after receiving them and then secondly how this same soldier was allowed to remain on the UN Honor Guard and provide security for the USFK commander?

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Kingkitty
1:06 pm on June 30th, 2008 1
hey I seen this sort of crap before. We had a Soldier on Extra Duty for stealing from the PX and was put on the Board for Soldier of the Quarter and almost won

Duds against Duds
Mark
10:27 pm on June 30th, 2008 2
In a comparison of both groups the study found that soldiers who had received waivers for bad behavior:

Had a higher desertion rate (4.26 percent vs. 3.23 percent).
Had a higher misconduct rate (5.95 percent vs. 3.55 percent).
Had a higher rate of appearances before courts-martial (1 percent vs. 0.71 percent).
Had a higher dropout rate for alcohol rehabilitation failure (0.27 percent vs. 0.12 percent).
But they also:

Were more likely to re-enlist (28.48 percent vs. 26.76 percent).
Got promoted faster to sergeant (after 34.7 months vs. 39 months).
Had a lower rate of dismissal for personality disorders (0.93 percent vs. 1.12 percent).
Had a lower rate of dismissal for unsatisfactory performance (0.26 percent vs. 0.48 percent).

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April
4:10 am on October 16th, 2008 4
In my husband’s unit, the “golden child” is a promiscuous female who is such a pathetic alcoholic that she often has to be carried, mostly unconscious, to her barracks room. When she gets caught, no one really punishes her. Someone lower down in her chain of command let it slip that he’d tried to write her up for her multiple offenses (like getting caught in a male’s room, openly having an affair with a married man, getting falling down drunk at the end of WLC dinner, etc) and he said someone way up the chain of command sent down word that he needed to squash it. This girl got soldier of the quarter and almost got soldier of the year.

The Army is NOT a meritocracy.