re: #218 Decatur Deb

Was he even charged? From the details here he freaked because he suspected he was a suspect. That doesn’t give his commander much to work with. In fact, the relevant commander might not even have been informed of a CID case against him. There’s too much missing from the story.

Not sure why the link won’t work:

For the two incidents in Illinois, Hazelbower pleaded guilty in the civilian court system to aggravated criminal sexual abuse and indecent solicitation of a child and received 30 months of probation.

Hazelbower was then returned to the Army. By that time a third sexual assault victim from the Fort Campbell area had been identified, although the court-martial records don’t state when the authorities first learned of her. She was 15 and lived in Kentucky, according to the documents.

He pleaded not guilty in military court to all the charges. But he was convicted by a military judge in May 2015 of child rape, possession of child pornography, sexual abuse of a child, desertion and other charges. For those crimes, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

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