Via JoeC in the comments section comes this update from the Stars & Stripes on the USFK Soldier arrested for the beating and attempted rape of a 64 year old grandma in Dongducheon:
A U.S. soldier will stand trial in South Korean court for allegedly breaking into the home of an elderly couple near Camp Casey in February and attempting to rape the woman, according to South Korean court officials.Pvt. Lloyd Daniel, 19, of the 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, was charged Tuesday with attempted robbery and rape, injury resulting from rape, bodily injury resulting from robbery and larceny, American and South Korean officials confirmed. He is being held in a Seoul correctional facility and will be tried in Uijeongbu District Court as early as April, although a date has not be set, according to South Korean officials. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read more about this case at the link, but something the S&S reporter missed that JoeC did notice was that Lloyd was convicted in a Korean court in February for “intrusion upon human habitation”. According to the S&S article this guy has been in country for 3 months and has committed the same type of crime twice with the later crime even involving a rape. Not only did he try to rape the woman, he severely beat the elderly couple with a piece of lumber. He also stole the woman’s cell phone, which a prior case has shown may actually give him more time in jail than the rape.
Doing a quick online search of Lloyd Daniel I was able to find a person of the same name who enlisted into the Army from Micronesia that would be the same age as the Lloyd Daniel in this rape case. Ironically in the article he had this to say about why he joined the Army:
Also, Lloyd feels a sense of debt to America: “The US has been here helping out our island in many ways, so I feel that we, as Micronesians, must return the favor.” [Christian Science Monitor]
If this is the same guy, this is some way to payback the US. Unrelated to this story, but the Christian Science Monitor article was widely repeated on all the usual liberal sites accusing the US military of a poverty draft and lying to get impoverished people into the Army. This is all of course not true, but when has facts mattered to these people.
Anyway back to the subject at hand, I am willing to bet that this guy will do 5+ years in a Korean jail for this crime considering he is a multiple offender who committed such a violent and despicable crime.
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4:18 pm on March 19th, 2011 1
It seems like Lloyd is an all-around lemon
with actions that leave your head swimmin'.
His values were twisted,
no morals existed,
and he had questionable tastes in his women.
5:03 pm on March 19th, 2011 2
His life is forfeit. When he is freed from prison, he shall sleep an eternal, cold and dreamless sleep.
12:14 am on March 20th, 2011 3
I hope the Korean justice system doesn't let us down. I hope they give him a very long prison sentence. I trust he'll get his a$$ pounded while he's in there.
1:09 am on March 20th, 2011 4
#3: I don't think so…
South Korea opens prison for foreign convicts
One US convict said the new prison was better than standard ones
South Korea has opened what officials say is the world's first purpose-built prison for foreign convicts.
The prison offers Western food and satellite TV programmes in English, Chinese, Russian and Arabic.
The number of foreigners in South Korean jails has more than doubled in the past four years to about 1,500.
The prison's director said the inmates would still be able to pursue the "Korean dream" that had led them to the country in the first place.
The prison is about 100km (62 miles) south of the capital, Seoul, in Cheonan.
Inmates are given classes in Korean culture but can also view satellite TV from around the world and eat non-Korean meals. A number of the guards are fluent in English, Russian or Chinese.
Human rights
The prison library has been stocked with books from many of the foreign embassies in Seoul.
One American prisoner told visiting journalists that compared with standard South Korean prisons, the food and education on offer were much better.
The government has said the facility aims to respect the inmates' human rights and treat them in a humanitarian manner regardless of their language, culture or religion.
"We will operate this facility for the inmates to recognise that their 'Korean dream' was not a failure," said the prison's director, Kim Pyung-gun. "We will give them a message of hope."
2:41 am on March 20th, 2011 5
LaPorte, since this criminal is a GI, he will not be going there which is a civilian prison for foreigners. He'll go to a different prison for GI's where he would be treated to even better life of leisure with all the perks that were negotiated by the US military.
Just ask that fellow who murdered that Korean prostitute in the 1990's and served in that prison for GI convicts.
3:42 am on March 20th, 2011 6
@Tom: As usual, you are full of sh!t.
The SOFA section at the prison is identical to the rest of the prison (same building, same cells, etc.), except it's sectioned off so that the US military members don't mix with the other prisoners.
The food is brought in once a week from Camp Humphreys by the MPs – it's standard chow hall food that the prisoners cook themselves. There is NOTHING special about chow hall food.
If the SOFA prisoner has a visitor, the visitor goes through the exact same procedures as a Korean prisoner's visitors, and all meetings are in the same meeting rooms where you talk through a glass window with holes in it. When the bell rings, the visitors enter, five minutes later the bell goes off, and they leave. The process is repeated over and over all day.
The only advantage the Americans might have is they get their own cells if there are fewer prisoners in the SOFA section than there are cells. Otherwise, they double up.
They DO NOT get AFN tv. They get the same as the Koreans, which is standard Korean cable.
If the American prisoner has Korean relatives, and the relatives pay bribes to the guards, the guard will do things like let the prisoner smoke an occasional cigarette (cigarette smoking is banned in Korean prisons) and when the prisoner is allowed his/her once-a-month 15 minute face-to-face visit, the guards will let the visit go for extra time and the visitor can bring some food (normally you can't give the prisoner anything during these visits). Also, instead of taking notes detailing the conversation that takes place, the guard will just leave the room or take a nap. The guards don't speak any English anyway, so that part is kind of a joke.
I used to visit someone at the SOFA section in the Seoul 구치소 in 의왕 on a regular basis and know exactly what it's like there.
5:08 am on March 20th, 2011 7
Guitard, that sounds like a pretty sweet setup you had over there when you were serving your sentence in there. I bet a lot of the Korean prisoners would cut off their arm just to live there.
9:52 am on March 20th, 2011 8
"Poverty Draft"
How many GI's(volunteers hoping to get American citizenship in exchange for service) are from other countries? Non-American(Micronesia) GI's do come from other countries where people make less money don't they?
9:56 am on March 20th, 2011 9
Yeah, it would be better if they didn't have the opportunity to join the Army so they could sit home and starve.
10:52 am on March 20th, 2011 10
#9, but only if they're rapists…
11:08 am on March 20th, 2011 11
#8, Yes and no. The US Army is open to all citizens world wide, even on christmas. But we can't directly recruit from other nations, their governments tend to get really pissed off if we start recruiting their citizens. Instead you have to *enlist* (sign the piece of paper) from a US state or territory, how you got there they don't care.
Being in the US Military does have its perks when it comes to the naturalization process. Your paperwork tends to get put on top of the stack and many fee's are waived or otherwise offset (legal helps you with the paperwork), you can be naturalized in about four years.
Funny story, I knew this one guy from South Africa, descendant of some English folk. He claims African-American for ethnicity, pissed a fck ton of black people off.
11:19 am on March 20th, 2011 12
#11 I too know a South African that earned his citizenship in the Army. He's the only real "African-American" I have ever met, but alas, he's a white guy.
Anyhoo,
SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP
/Want to learn more?
11:58 am on March 20th, 2011 13
The last days of Roman Empire too saw a great swaths of foreign born mercenaries. Same thing here. You can buy these men with bribes, but you won't buy their loyalty. You guys are done as a real country.
12:05 pm on March 20th, 2011 14
The US military is not comprised of great swaths of foreign born mercenaries.
"The Immigration Policy Center reported, “As of June 30, 2009, there were 114,601 foreign-born individuals serving in the armed forces, representing 7.91 percent of the 1.4 million military personnel on active duty. Roughly 80.97 percent of foreign-born service members were naturalized U.S. citizens, while 12.66 percent were not U.S. citizens.”
These are the people I WANT to immigrate to my country. Those that have served have earned it. They are not foreign merc's. The vast majority of them become US citizens.
12:47 pm on March 20th, 2011 15
But they aren't US citizens. That's a definition of a mercenary to me.
5:08 pm on March 20th, 2011 16
Tom 13, the Romans didn't wait till the end before recruiting foreigners. Julius Caesar had Gauls and Germans in his army in the first century BC. And of course he granted a lot of them Roman citizenship. Some folks back home didn't like it, but they were a multinational empire. Theirs was the only regime that ever controlled the entire Mediterranean basin.
6:36 pm on March 20th, 2011 17
Foreigners have been in the US military since the revolutionary war. And no, I wouldn't label this clown a mercenary.
11:43 pm on March 20th, 2011 18
One American prisoner told visiting journalists that compared with standard South Korean prisons, the food and education on offer were much better.
STOVE TOP STUFFING? I'M STAYING!
anyone remember that commercial?
11:51 pm on March 20th, 2011 19
Tom even gets his history wrong… Even stuff you can look up with a simple Google search…
#15, are you a US citizen? No? Then by your definition you're a mercenary…
What? You say your words were taken out of context? Imagine that…
3:00 am on May 4th, 2011 20
I AM DEMANDING WEATHER MR DOBRIN RAZVAN MARIUS FROM ROMANIA IS IN PRISON IN SOUTH KOREA
4:19 am on May 4th, 2011 21
“I AM DEMANDING WEATHER”
OK. How about rain?
“MR DOBRIN RAZVAN MARIUS FROM ROMANIA IS IN PRISON IN SOUTH KOREA”
Sorry to hear that.
5:57 am on May 4th, 2011 22
IF MR DOBRIN RAZVAN MARIUS FROM ROMANIA IS IN PRISON IN SOUTH KOREA THEN THIS IS MOST UNACCEPTABLE! I AM DEMANDING! I AM CORNHOLIO! I WANT A SLUSHIE!
/WEATHER AT 6
11:33 pm on May 9th, 2011 23
That was on Sad Story for us the Islanders.