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.
There are SO many articles on FR. By the time, we scroll down through them all; we are tired. Old & tired. - Of course, this situation is HORRIBLE. I have additional housekeeping & cooking chores that I have to do (the maid & the cook didn’t show up today)- \s
A story for which Napier is often noted involved Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband.
As first recounted by his brother William, he replied:
“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.” [5]
never take the law into our own hands
This incident ought to be a part of the next president’s inaugural address. “I hereby recall SFC Maitland and CPT Quinn to active duty, with a promotion of one rank, and accept the resignations of... [insert the chain of command here].”
It disturbs me that there are people prepared to turn their back on the sergeant.
Special Forces have a very particular mission, working with local forces, coordinating and leading those forces. They are in a position to look the other way on things that don’t matter, but they are also in a position to exert influence on things that do matter.
Martland had discussed the issue with the elders before confronting the offending officer.
This is what happened with the Syrian “rebels”. We’re training and supplying and financing you, we are in a position to tell you to protect every Christian in your midst or we will come down on you with hellfire. But we didn’t do it. And now we have a big problem. Well, we have a PR problem. The Christians and Yazidis have a rather more pressing problem.
Active Duty ping.
Our Blood, Our Treasure, Our Values. That has to be our motto now and forever. Otherwise don’t involve America.
Trump taking PC head on is his greatest achievement to date. Can he make it stick? I think that’s up to us.
He lived up to his motto: “De oppresso liber”
You mean those gutless, spineless wimps who give Nobama everything he wants? The ones who are afraid of their own shadows? Are those the Republicans you are referring to? They are, of course, nowhere to be seen, as usual.
One more year and then We The People can have our say. Get active today. Veterans must remember Benghazi, VA scandal, outrages like this and the list goes on.
Anyone who sits the next election out is to blame.
Support Our Troops!!!
Amen, My FRiend.
Instead of publicly assaulting Abdul Rahman, he should have slit his damn pedo throat in the middle of the night. These sick bastards need to start mysteriously dropping dead.
Imagine the praise given out if they’d joined the creep in raping the boy? Diveristy, coexist, if it feels good do it and all cultures are equal!
Obama the Bastard’s Gay Army supports boy rape.
This incident like the planned parenthood debacle should be a no-brainer to anyone involved in the decision making process.
Problem is you have light a fire under the decision makers ass and we seldom accomplish that since we have no methodology for getting messages out.
We have not figured out how to effectively use the New Media which is our only vehicle for fair and balanced messaging and we still depend on the Old driveby Media to get messages out that help our cause. That of course will never happen.
But, no one but us will ever hear about it.
What does a ‘religion’ or even a ‘death cult’ have to do with raping children? This should never be tolerated at all by the rest of the world and should be obliterated at once.
The green on blue attacks have rarely been about the Taliban. It’s quite apparent which team the Pentagon sides with.
Obama in action!!
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