In 2012, Lt. Col. James Wilkerson and his wife hosted a small party at their home. According to a guest of the party who was stranded without a ride home, Wilkerson sexually assaulted her and kicked her out of the house at around 3 in the morning. A few months later, the judge advocate general, […]
The United States Marine Corps has released a full-length video titled “Lost Honor” in order to address growing concerns of sexual assault conducted by its members, typically against other Marines. Paired with an accompanying discussion guide, “Lost Honor” takes an interesting approach to inappropriate and risky behavior determent by highlighting the stories of Marines and former-Marines who […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKjvo-CntEc In 2014, senior Army officer Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, who was involved in one of the military’s most closely watched sexual assault cases, agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges, including disobeying a commander’s order, misusing his government charge card and mistreating his former mistress, a captain. Between 2009 and 2012, prosecutors said […]
No Jail Time for E-5 in Minor Sex Assault Due to Entrapment and Mistake of Fact.
Officers in Okinawa, Japan, should be extremely wary when using Craigslist’s “casual encounters” listings. In what has been a highly-controversial move, the NCIS has been running sting operations in an attempt to catch and convict officers of sex crimes. In these sting operations, NCIS plants ads on Craigslist, social media, and dating sites, all of […]
In case you have not heard, Bilecki Law Group won the first NCIS Sting Operation case in Okinawa defending an accused Chief Warrant Officer. Last week, a Marine Corps jury found a Warrant Officer Not Guilty of attempted sexual assault on a child, attempted sexual contact of a child, attempted lewd act on a child and attempted adultery. […]
After SFC Gregory McQueen was charged with soliciting paid sex from female privates under his command and sentenced to two years in prison as well as being demoted to the rank of private, Col. Don Christensen, who was chief prosecutor for the Air Force, says that McQueen “exploited his rank and position of authority to abuse […]
In a report that claims female privates in the military are so underpaid that they must resort to prostitution to survive, an unsettling discovery if it’s true, journalist Anna Mulrine has decided to focus on going after the men that solicited them rather than calling out the true issue. If women in the military really are struggling […]
SFC Gregory McQueen was recently sentenced to two years in prison and demoted for allegedly soliciting female privates for prostitution. Yet this apparently was not enough for his prosecutors, who are in disbelief that McQueen did not receive the five year sentence they were fighting for. In a civilian court, however, soliciting a prostitute would […]