Sunday, March 20, 2005

It gets better and better...

Ok. Here is my take on the subject. Drummed out of my Corps. Bad Conduct Discharge at the very least, or, as we twisted types with PMO referred to as a "Big chicken dinner". He lied. He Cheated. No one can prove he injured this child, but that's not the case, is it? He lied. He Cheated. Maybe he got off on the injury to a child charge, but WTF?! He lied. He Cheated. Here's how it went down:

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A lance corporal was found not guilty of assaulting an infant at a home on Camp Pendleton, Calif., in court-martial proceedings March 10.
The civilian attorney representing Lance Cpl. John Aguilar said the Marine was erroneously singled out for the injuries suffered by a child in his care.

Jeremiah J. Sullivan III, a San Diego-based attorney, blamed on two “very inexperienced agents” with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service who were assigned to the case.

Aguilar was found guilty, however, of making a false official statement regarding his relationship with the child’s mother, Destiny Moberg. He also pleaded guilty to adultery in that relationship, Sullivan said.

Aguilar was watching the 3½-month-old girl and three other children on July 1, 2003, at a Camp Pendleton home. The baby was taken to the hospital the following day and found to have bruises on her brain because, investigators said, the Marine shook her.

But Aguilar’s attorney said the shaken-baby charge was unfounded. “I think we proved beyond a reasonable doubt that it was the mother … who did the injuries,” Sullivan said March 14, noting that the child’s mother “has been on antidepressants since the age of 17.”

A defense motion to dismiss a charge of attempted murder was granted by the judge in the case, Col. Robert Chester, according to Sullivan.

He was reduced in rank to private and sentenced to 20 days in the brig, after which he is expected to leave the Corps since his enlistment contract ends by late March.

“It will still be an honorable discharge,” Sullivan said.


An Honorable Discharge. I have an Honorable Discharge. I didn't screw someone's wife, producing a child, have my lover or myself shake this child into injury, or lie about what went down to NIS, then get out of there with an honorable after 20 days because I was a short-timer. And let me tell you, the brig today is a cake-walk. I lived it, albeit third person on weekly visits. I learned that military inmates have more, and more closely scrutinized, rights than any normal citizen.

I'll jump to conclusions here and give NIS the benefit of the doubt. This little puke drilled someone elses wife, got her pregnant, produced a child, shook that infant to injury, lied about it, and he leaves the Corps with honor.

Leaves the Corps with Honor.

I've got that tingly, pangy, heart-stopping feeling that you get when the situation presented to you causes you to throw up, pass out, or start swinging....

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Hello
I stumbled across your article as I was trying to perhaps find more info on this situation. The little girl that was injured is my daughter. I am the father. Me and the mother separated after this incident, but I am still trying to find out what exactly happened to my daughter. I was in Iraq during the incident. I appreciate your opinion.

October 16, 2009 at 9:30 PM  

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