{"id":183200,"date":"2015-01-27T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/27\/yes-that-military-rape-problem-is-being-handled\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:59:00","slug":"yes-that-military-rape-problem-is-being-handled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/27\/yes-that-military-rape-problem-is-being-handled\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, That Military Rape Problem is Being Handled\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s why the Army <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/stephaniemcneal\/army-prosecutor-found-guilty-of-multiple-sexual-assault-char#.bvVwp9pzA\">put a rapist in charge of prosecuting rapes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A former Army prosecutor has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after being convicted of several sexual assault charges, including rape and forcible sodomy, against multiple victims.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A court-martial panel on Monday found Maj. Erik J. Burris guilty of two specifications of rape, four specifications of assault, forcible sodomy, and disobeying an officer, Fort Bragg said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortbraggpresscenter.com\/go\/doc\/5287\/2452366\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was found not guilty of other sodomy and assault charges.<\/p>\n<p>Burris <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">had been serving as the chief of justice for the 82nd Airborne Division<\/span><\/b> when the allegations against him came to light, a Fort Bragg spokeswoman told BuzzFeed News.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>Emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, you need to take this out of the chain of command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s why the Army put a rapist in charge of prosecuting rapes: A former Army prosecutor has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after being convicted of several sexual assault charges, including rape and forcible sodomy, against multiple victims. A court-martial panel on Monday found Maj. Erik J. Burris guilty of two specifications of rape, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1006,1075,1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-military","category-sex","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}