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Naval Officer Admits Raping Own Daughter, Navy Promotes Him Anyway
Opposing Views ^ | 12/10/2013 | By Jonathan Vankin

Posted on 12/10/2013 11:52:32 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

As the Pentagon begins a year-long inquiry into why child abuse is rapidly increasing throughout the U.S Armed Services, a Navy officer who sexually abused his own two children was not only given a pass by Navy brass, he got a promotion.

The case was exposed in a recent story in the Virginian-Pilot, a newspaper based in Norfolk, Va., and the details are chilling. Four years ago, according to evidence and testimony amassed by Child Protective Services in Virginia, the Navy lieutenant — who was not named by the newspaper in order to protect the privacy of his traumatized kids — raped his 13-year-old daughter, pinning her to a bed and forcing himself on her after two years of touching her in inappropriate ways.

In the years since the 2009 rape, the girl has suffered severe depression and anxiety, along with suicidal thoughts and a stomach ulcer.

The lieutenant also abused his 10-year-old son, according to the social workers on the case, repeatedly touching the boy’s genitals through his clothes and on one occasion, tying the boy up, duct-taping his mouth shut then forcing him to watch as the lieutenant had sex with a girlfriend.

The lieutenant had separated from his wife, the children’s mother, at the time. When a judge decided that the wife’s allegations of child abuse could hurt the officer’s Navy career, he cited her for contempt of court and ordered her to pay a $5,000 fine, which she can’t afford, or spend 10 days in jail.

Nonetheless, social workers placed the officer's name on the state’s Child Abuse and Neglect Registry and obtained a court order forbidding him from coming within two miles of his children — he has four — until they each turn 18.

The lieutenant signed a document admitting to Child Protection authorities that he committed “Level 2” abuse against his daughter. The social workers accused him of Level 1 abuse, which means that the child suffered “serious harm” as a result. Level 2 means the child endured “moderate” harm.

Despite the evidence, including his own admission, the Navy cleared the officer and let him keep his $96,000 per year job, with a promotion.

In fact, the newspaper examined 1,400 child abuse allegations against U.S. Navy service members and found that the Navy threw out half of them as “unsubstantiated.”

After the Virginian-Pilot story ran, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service opened a new investigation into the abuse allegations against the lieutenant.

In 2011 and 2012, the four branches of the armed forces had 12,881 cases of child abuse and neglect reported, 67 of them leading to the death of a child. More than 750 were sexual assault cases.

In the Navy alone, 42 children died from abuse and neglect from 2008 to 2012. From 2009 to 2012, the Navy had 3,336 child abuse and neglect cases.

In November, the Defense Department announced that it was forming a special working group to investigate the military child abuse epidemic. The group is expected to release its first report in February, part of a projected year-long study.

SOURCES: Virginian-Pilot, Navy Times

 


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: navy; rape
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Hard to believe something so horrible could happen.
1 posted on 12/10/2013 11:52:32 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Obamaville


2 posted on 12/10/2013 11:53:49 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s okay - the military didn’t dump a devote Muslim who talked about killing US troops (and then did; see Fort Hood).

I think it’s illegal to discriminate against lawbreakers. They all need to be treated equally.

Now you pedophileophobes go pay your taxes, your government is broke. :)


3 posted on 12/10/2013 11:54:31 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why didn’t he go to prison?


4 posted on 12/10/2013 11:54:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why didn’t he go to prison?


5 posted on 12/10/2013 11:54:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Responsibility2nd

Let me guess, the officer is needed to fulfill a diversity quota?


6 posted on 12/10/2013 11:55:27 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Someone in the know should have contacted the Navy. . .apparently no one did.


7 posted on 12/10/2013 11:55:48 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Responsibility2nd

Words fail...


8 posted on 12/10/2013 11:55:54 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Our new armed forces?


9 posted on 12/10/2013 11:56:14 AM PST by certrtwngnut (')
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To: Responsibility2nd

An enlisted man would be doing hard time.


10 posted on 12/10/2013 11:56:20 AM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
WTF ??!!??

How can I believe we're in such capable hands when I read shit like THIS ?

How mature can a warrior think when that warrior doesn't think very well outside of being a warrior ?

How sanely when he's insane ?

11 posted on 12/10/2013 11:56:20 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Too bad Rocks and Shoals is no longer in effect. Keel Hauling seems appropriate.


12 posted on 12/10/2013 11:56:26 AM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Let me guess. He is not white.


13 posted on 12/10/2013 11:57:55 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Hulka

I can’t believe the victims have no family or friends. For if they did, there would be one less navy lieutenant.


14 posted on 12/10/2013 11:58:33 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Is he a member of a preferentially treated religious group?


15 posted on 12/10/2013 11:59:23 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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There's more to the story:

Did he actually commit the abuse or was a "given an offer he couldn't refuse" to sign the decree of lesser abuse? Seems the Navy is questioning this as well.

I'm not claiming this guy is innocent by any measure but honestly, I trust child protective services about as far as I can throw them. They're some of the most corrupt government agencies around.

16 posted on 12/10/2013 12:02:29 PM PST by Drew68
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Well, he claims it’s “my militaty”. Sure seems headed in that direction.


17 posted on 12/10/2013 12:05:49 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Responsibility2nd

‘Just part of the left’s obama’s plan to do away with the age of consent so that pedophillia can become the new norm. If anyone speaks up against this behavior, it will be deemed a hate crime.


18 posted on 12/10/2013 12:09:05 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Drew68

Here’s the part I love...

“Her father, who underwent a court-ordered psychosexual evaluation, was found to exhibit “a nondisclosing (86% ‘False’ responses), highly guarded and defensive profile.”

The evaluator placed him in the “Denier-Dissimulator child sexual abuser category.”

So they ask you if you did it....if you say yes, then you’re a child abuser. And if you say no....then you’re in the “Denier-Dissimulator child sexual abuser category.”

This is how these services all too often work....


19 posted on 12/10/2013 12:09:12 PM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: Responsibility2nd

If he had raped the boy they would have promoted him to Admiral.


20 posted on 12/10/2013 12:09:33 PM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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