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| Female Airman Punished for Threesome |
| 2007-05-26 |
| SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — A Spangdahlem-based airman was sentenced Monday to four months confinement for her part in a sexual act with two other airmen. Airman 1st Class Ashley N. Rains pleaded guilty at a court-martial to two indecent acts charges. She had faced rape and sodomy charges but admitted to the lesser charges as part of a plea deal. Judge (Col.) Gordon Hammock also sentenced Rains, 22, an aircrew life support specialist with the 22nd Fighter Squadron, to reduction to the lowest pay grade. She faced a maximum sentence that included as many as 10 years in a military prison, but Air Force prosecutors argued for a lighter sentence of two years. Balance at the link. Don't miss the air refueling "Threesome" photo. |
| Posted by:Slick Willie |
| #12 Study finds binge drinking among college students impaires decision-making ability |
| Posted by: DragonFly 2007-05-26 22:24 |
| #11 The reason for deducing that the act involved a dildo is that Ashley Rains initially faced a charge of rape, but that charge was bargained down. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2007-05-26 13:59 |
| #10 General Article 134 is "abusing a pubic animal" More information than I need. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-26 13:41 |
| #9 I should not have opened this article. Having opened the article, I should not have read the comments. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-05-26 12:55 |
| #8 I'm sure exJAG could enlighten us more, but one of the more interesting charges under the General Article 134 is "abusing a pubic animal". The original intent was to address the mishandling or cruelty towards government [animal] material, however there are certain conditions I'd think would warrant an expanded definition of the offense :) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-05-26 12:17 |
| #7 I suspect Ashley has a future in the entertainment industry. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2007-05-26 11:32 |
| #6 Odd headline. Airman Hicks actually faces more serious charges. Newspapers always go for the lurid headlines. I would like to have seen the following headline: "Alcohol-induced menage a trois goes bad." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-26 10:36 |
| #5 #1. Mike, a dildo wouldn't necessarily be envolved. It just had to be a "unnatural" sex act. Whatever that is. Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) ART. 125. SODOMY (a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense. (This article always got the most giggles when I read the UCMJ to in-coming flights of Air Force trainees.) Still wondering if there is an article covering stupidity for recording the session in the first place. |
| Posted by: GK 2007-05-26 10:22 |
| #4 Its whatever the JAG decided to use to file charges. 9 times out of 10, if they can't get anything else to stick, they'll fall back on "conduct unbecoming" The UCMJ is pretty easy to come up with charges against people for darned near anything you do. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-05-26 09:55 |
| #3 Reading the whole article it sounds like they went out for some drinks, then Rains and the man took advantage of her inebriated condition (perhaps themselves not entirely in their right mind), and for some reason Video-taped it. Video-tape is not stated, but the quotes for the prosocution and defense seem to lean towards one being in existance. I'm not nor will ever be in the armed forces, so what's the Conduct here? Was it the act or the fact they made a video that got them charged? |
| Posted by: Charles 2007-05-26 09:41 |
| #2 The comments thread at the link is interesting. According to the original article, the second woman was a sergeant, which it seems is an E-5 in the Air Force rather than an E-6, and she was so drunk she was passing in and out of consciousness. I think Mike Sylwester must be right, because apparently under normal circumstances the senior officer is deemed responsible. Definitely a lurid crime tale. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-26 07:14 |
| #1 I deduce that the act involved a dildo and a movie camera. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2007-05-26 04:32 |