Posted on 09/28/2015 1:29:31 PM PDT by robowombat
Green Beret Discharged for Body-Slamming Alleged Child Rapist Breaks Silence, Provides New — and Graphic — Details on Why He Felt Compelled to Act
Sep. 28, 2015 12:54pm Kaitlyn Schallhorn
The Green Beret who is set to be involuntarily discharged in early November has finally spoken out about the situation that caused his punishment in the first place — his intervening on behalf of an Afghan boy who was being repeatedly raped.
“Kicking me out of the Army is morally wrong and the entire country knows it,” Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland said in his first public statement, which was provided to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) who is advocating on the serviceman’s behalf.
Rep. Duncan Hunter wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter, asking that he review the "involuntary discharge" of Sgt. First Class Charles Martland. (Image source: KUSA-TV) Rep. Duncan Hunter wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter, asking that he review the “involuntary discharge” of Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, above. (Image source: KUSA-TV) In the statement obtained by Fox News, Martland detailed the day in 2011 that he and his team leader started a fight with local police commander Abdul Rahman who allegedly raped a young boy multiple times. According to a separate statement from the team leader, Capt. Daniel Quinn, Rahman allegedly kept a young boy tied to a pole in his house where he raped him repeatedly from 10 days to two weeks. Rahman’s brother was instructed to beat the child’s mother when she attempted to intervene, which he did.
Martland called Rahman a “brutal rapist” and said he and Quinn confronted him after confirming the allegations with several elders.
Rahman admitted to the act and ”the child rapist laughed it off and referenced that it was only a boy,” Martland said.
“Captain Quinn picked him up and threw him,” Martland said. “I [proceeded to] body slam him multiple times.”
“I kicked him once in his ribcage after one of the body slams,” Martland said in the statement. “I put my foot on his neck and yelled at him after one body slam, but did not kick or punch him in the face. I continued to body slam him and throw him for 50 meters until he was outside the camp.”
In his statement, Quinn said he physically threw Rahman off the camp through the front gates.
“He was never knocked out, and he ran away from our camp. It did not last longer than 5 minutes. The child rapist’s allegations against us are ridiculous,” Martland said.
After an investigation into the incident, Quinn and Martland were removed from the Afghan outpost. Quinn has since left the Army, but Martland is faced with an involuntary leave on Nov. 1 due a military policy implemented amid budget cuts. Martland appealed the decision, but it has been denied.
“While I understand that a military lawyer can say that I was legally wrong, we felt a moral obligation to act,” Martland wrote in his statement.
Hunter has defended Martland’s actions, which Martland has argued were to protect the boy and American lives that were at risk.
“To intervene was a moral decision, and SFC Martland and his Special Forces team felt they had no choice but to respond,” Hunter wrote in the letter addressed to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter in August.
“Mr. Secretary, I personally ask that you review the details of this case and intervene immediately,” Hunter said. “SFC Martland stood up to a child rapist — which I am fully confident you believe is the right thing to do — and the fact that he will soon be involuntarily separated as a result is troubling.”
However, as Fox News reported, others have not defended the actions of Quinn and Martland.
Col. Steve Johnson, a U.S. commander stationed in Afghanistan during that time, appears to have defended the Army’s decision in a conversation on his LinkedIn page, according to Fox News.
“The entire operational Chain of Command supported the relief for cause and reprimand. Vigilantism is illegal in the United States and should not be condoned elsewhere,” Johnson wrote. “We should do our best to ensure that the accused is brought to justice legally and fairly — we should never take the law into our own hands (as Martland and Quinn did).”
Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement last week that he is “absolutely confident that no such theater policy has ever existed here,” such as the one Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. said forbade officers from intervening in child rape cases because it’s “their culture” before his death in 2012.
Obama punishes a soldier who takes beats up a child rapist? Wish I could say that I was shocked.
“I kicked him once in his ribcage after one of the body slams,” Martland said in the statement. “I put my foot on his neck and yelled at him after one body slam, but did not kick or punch him in the face. I continued to body slam him and throw him for 50 meters until he was outside the camp.”
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
We still know whose ass to kick and how!
President Cruz will. President Trump will. Then he should be re-commissioned with a step promotion, full back pay, and a line command assignment.
BTTT
Cruz can insist on a total revamp of engagement policy which says this kind of conduct must be forbidden by any country that expects US military cooperation. And pardon all cases like this. Any “award” however would be sadly symbolic and would do nothing about the actual victims.
A fish rots from the head down. We all know who is the CiC and this is tacit approval for the culture of buggering little boys.
He should run for office. He has my vote.
Except did it help the boy? I doubt it... might have gone after the boy with double vengeance now, for all we know, to try to recover his lost dignity.
I could understand shooting him dead, more than this.
Exactly correct
If either is elected there will be a rush of men joining the US military once again.
Nah, this is only collateral damage. He would have done it, Afghan warlords or no Afghan warlords.
ALLEGED? TheBlaze is so pathetic. He ADMITTED it and laughed about it
“— we should never take the law into our own hands (as Martland and Quinn did).”
Pansy excuse from girlymen.
This is thanks to 0bama. His policy is to give towelheads everything they want and never to criticize them.
When a Nation, figuratively and verbally tells God to take a hike, that His presence is neither wanted or appreciated, there is only way it will go morally, financially,and politically. Because God will honor their request. He does not dwell where He is not wanted
Yep, any who approve of punishing these men
are saying they approve of child rape.
I’m looking for the candidate who will hire him as military consultant. And after the election fire every officer in the chain of command who is responsible for his firing.
Legality must have at its core, morality. Without morality, legality is vacuous.
You have to remember the sexual orientation of the president.
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