He entered pleas of guilty to fracturing his son’s skull, his stepson’s skull, and to assaulting his wife. (my emphasis)
The plea was entered and accepted in 2012, the fourth year of Obola's reign, plenty of time for Obola's rot to have entered the military "justice" system. We can trace these 27 dead innocents to Obola himself.
And plea deals generally mean the charges were initially worse than the plea.