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.
A serious military would want to clone guys like Martland by the thousands.
I want these animals destroyed. (Muslims)
It warms my heart that an American serviceman has such compassion for a young Afghan boy. God bless them both.
That is known as pride (in the bad sense) or self worship.
Boehner let on about it when he said he was concerned with “preserving the institution” as if the institution didn’t have any reason outside itself to be there.
Pretty sad.
” 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,”
And these people are considered our allies?
In the real world this is a capital offense.
With a homosexual muslim president this should come as no surprise.
But even morality has to realize wisdom. Acts that make a situation worse are self defeating... better that he do the equivalent of a sit down strike (or quit) than to stir up a hornets nest without killing it or any hope of killing it in sight.
Except what is likely to happen to the boy now... is this compassion or is this self congratulation...
Allen West...
And the military found successful recruits, who were already trained as to follow orders - from the Boy Scouts.
Sounds like a grand plan, don't it?
A field castration would have helped...
This is what the word ‘demoralization’ means: The systemic destruction of culture, of right and wrong, to create a moral vacuum that socialism can fill.
You are SO right.
Had the Afgan guy been clubbing a baby seal, he’d be public enemy #1.
But no, he was only RAPING A CHILD.
This nation is gone. We are screwed beyond repair. The left has installed cancer EVERYWHERE in our government, military and all places of authority.
I can’t even get my head to process this. It is a normal response (in any normal adult) to protect a child. Any of us would have done the same thing.
From news sources:
Nov 10, 2014 - Donald Trump has written a check for $25000 to Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who was recently freed from a Mexican prison after 214 days in jail.
Nov 12, 2014 - Donald Trump was an outspoken supporter of Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi while the Marine was being held in Mexico for seven months.
The whole purpose of normalizing sodomy and bestiality in our military-—starting with Bill Clinton—was/is to destroy Christian Virtue-—the Christian Worldview—and normalize the muslim, satanic Ethics.
For Machiavelli stated: It is ESSENTIAL to promote (Christian) Virtue in the military at all times. Promoting Vice will destroy it....as vice promotes hate and disunity and destroys trust. Vice collapses all cultures—so the brutal are at the top (SS homosexual Nazis and homosexual Bolsheviks).
All “Just Law” has to promote public virtue (Montesquieu—and that is NEVER sodomy).
OBAMA and the sodomites WANT muslim ethics normalized so our military is as pathetic and evil as the muslim one-—so our ex-Christian troops will have no problem killing women and children, like the Hitler SS/SA homosexual Nazis when they turn the military on our virtuous citizens (the Christians)..
Practicing dehumanizing behaviors like sodomizing others-—dehumanizes. It is that simple. It normalizes brutal treatment of others.
All homosexual cultures go after the boys-—since it is a learned and habituated worldview and behavior-—as ALL behaviors are.
Christian Ethics is the ONLY ethical system which eliminated SLAVERY and PEDERASTY and HOMOSEXUALITY and Child-Killing and polygamy as the NORM and made it “evil”-— evil, satanic cultures, where women and children are always the victims in the sexist, evil culture of “Might makes Right” (Socialism/Marxism).
But people don't get it, not at all. For most, it's all about Our Brave Forces Fighting Evil in the World. They forget Obama has been Commander of those same forces for a good while now.
I’m guessing there were lots of prayers for this child. If worse happened, it’s not on the serviceman, it’s on the perverts.
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.
Don't know what kind of work these two gentlemen will be applying for, but that write-up should be part of their resumes.
The only one?
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