Posted on 08/19/2021 10:32:49 AM PDT by jerod
Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell of Base Gagetown faces maximum of 5 years in prison
New Brunswick soldier accused of giving cannabis-laced cupcakes to troops on a live-fire training exercise has been found guilty of nine charges.
Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell was convicted Wednesday of eight counts of administering a noxious substance to soldiers without their consent and one count of behaving in a disgraceful manner, a charge under the National Defence Act, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, according to the prosecution.
A 10th charge of committing an act to the prejudice of good order and discipline, which is a lesser offence than behaving in a disgraceful manner, was stayed.
Military Judge Cmdr. Sandra Sukstorf delivered her decision over two hours to a full courtroom Wednesday morning at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown in Oromocto, N.B.
Cogswell, who was in charge of the canteen, was found to have put cannabis into cupcakes she had baked at home and distributed to soldiers in July 2018 when they were on a live-fire exercise. She didn't tell them about the cannabis.
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High school must have been hell for that military judge.
I’m thinking none of the victims really cared, but then, you can’t go adulterating food and giving it to people clandestinely. That’s a huge no-no in my book.
I wonder what one does to become referred to as the ‘the canteen bitch.’
Bombardier Chelsea
The judge already seems inclined to go easy on this woman.
“We need to find the good in all of us”
I take it the physical fitness requirements there are rather loose.
If the chow-hall girls at Homestead AFB were any indication, you really don’t want to know.
"Sukstorf also said sentencing would be an opportunity for Cogswell, who didn't take the stand in her own defence, to tell her story.
"It's very important for us to see the good that lies behind an individual," she said.
(This, after Cogswell refused to own up to her crimes. But really, crimes like this are nothing to the Left.)
I probably don’t.
But in my experience, one doesn’t acquire a label like that without somehow earning it.
Prison? Just for cannabis pushed onto our boys fighting for our freedoms?
Whatever could that lead to, I wonder?
Of course - just as if she'd secretly spiked their beverages with alcohol.
Whatever could that lead to, I wonder?
Cannabis leads to being stoned. Glad I could help.
“...when they were on a live-fire exercise.”
What could go wrong?
The live-fire exercise must have gone verrrry slowwwwly.
Well I guess HE dressed for the occasion, stripes:-)
Commander Sukstorff? How did she get that na..., never mind.
They caught her because all everyone wanted after their brownie was a bag of Fritos and a Dr. Pepper.
“Have you sustained any casualties?”
“As a matter of fact, man, the whole platoon’s wiped out.”
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