Man is looking at 25 years in military confinement for taking pics of woman undressin
 

By WARREN WOODBERRY JR. and FERNANDA SANTOS, DAILY NEWS STAFF hahahahahaRS

A West Point cadet snapped illicit pictures of female classmates and posted them online where other cadets could ogle them, Army officials charge.

Mark Conliffe, a senior at the U.S. Military Academy, is accused of taking photographs of eight women, most of them fellow cadets, in various states of undress without their knowledge, officials said.


He then loaded the photos into his computer, which is hooked to the academy's network, and made them accessible to other cadets, an academy spokesman said.


Conliffe, 23, faces up to 25 years in military confinement, dismissal from the Army and could lose the right to graduate with his class.


"This is a heartbreak," Conliffe's father, Ken, told the Daily News yesterday in a phone interview from his home in Louisville, Ky.


"Mark worked very hard and he was getting ready for graduation," Ken Conliffe said. "He's been on the honor roll just about every year at West Point. He's a great kid."


West Point officials stumbled upon the photographs during a routine check of cadets' computer files, Lt. Col. James Whaley, West Point's director of public affairs, said in a statement.


Whaley would not say how or where Conliffe allegedly took the photos.


The Times Herald-Record of Middletown, N.Y., reported yesterday that the photos date back to May 2002 and that the female subjects had been notified about the pictures.


Conliffe has been charged with 15 violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the Armed Forces' equivalent of criminal counts.


He was formally charged Thursday with unlawful entry, conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman and violation of a lawful general order.


"West Point takes these allegations very seriously and will thoroughly investigate all incidents of this nature," Whaley said.


A 6-foot-3 offensive tackle for the Army Black Knights football team, Conliffe is still allowed to attend class and perform his regular duties as a cadet, a spokesman said. He has not been detained. His name, however, appeared to have been removed from the online version of the football team's roster.


Conliffe was a straight-A student at Trinity High School in Louisville, where he was known as "Cyber Boy," a nickname he earned after posing for a high school ad campaign with wires attached to his head.


Conliffe is majoring in art, philosophy and literature and lists field artillery as his preferred branch of service, according to his online student profile.


At the academy, he earned the coveted Recondo Badge, awarded for excellence in training.


"We're aware there have been some charges, but we stand by our son," his mother, Michele Conliffe, told The News.

"We're very proud of him and we support him."

At the campus yesterday, where a black marble monument is emblazoned with the motto, "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those that do," cadets approached by the Daily News politely declined to discuss the allegations. "I'm not informed enough to comment, sir," several told a reporter.

The U.S. military has struggled over the years in its inclusion of women in the ranks. Last year, dozens of female cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. reported being raped or sexually assaulted. In 1991, the Navy was rocked by the infamous Tailhook scandal when women complained they had been groped by drunken pilots at a convention.

All I gotta say on this is the guy is a world class idiot for doing that.

bingo

better they lock this dipshit up instead of making him an officer

That was STUPID!!

This guy should thought a bit about the future before posting those photos... he was playing with fire, and got burned.

Samuel

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You have to be a complete dork to not get a Recondo Badge!
All you have to do is remember to yell "RECONDO" after every fucking drill.:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

What a dumbass... you don't do shit like this when you're into West Point and in your last year.

So, who care ? :Graucho

Thats a bit harsh dont you think?
:helpme

complicated shit :1orglaugh

I agree the guy was an idiot .. but 25 fucking years!?

Rape or murder someone .. get parole in 15 .. post some nude pics of your classmates on the network and get the equivalent of life in Canada.

It's alright if you're violent but if you're obscene or imoral .. watch out.

well put!:thumbsup

25 years? thats it?

they should exe<vb>cute this scumbag

http://www.tcsn.net/inkara1/quickcam/noose.jpg

25 years in military confinement I bet thats not a cakewalk.

25 years for that, damn.

yeah.. the internet is a small place. Did he really think it wasn't going to come back and bite him on the ass?

wow that's insane...talk about biting him hard!!:1orglaugh

He never even posted them on the Internet, just made them available on the academy's network.

Stupid thing to do, but I have heard of rapists and child molestors that faced less prison time than that.

I assume 25 years is just the maximum though, can't see them actually giving him that much time.

And there we go ... the definition of a complete idiot.

wow, great way to toss your life in the toilet

Great example of how a drunken idea can turn into a life fucking decision :(

pics?? :Graucho

great way to fuck up his life

What a waste. Dipshit was stupid enough to take the pics, but distributing them in a way that made it easy to track him down ? moron.

officer he is not, throw him outta there or somthing, but 25 yrs ? wtf...

The Revenge of the Nerd crew didn't get punished... why should US Military Cadets?