American soldier shot Iraqi boy after gay rape
 

A US national guardsman who pleaded guilty to killing a 17-year-old Iraqi soldier said he shot the young man after they had consensual sex in a guard tower, a newspaper reported today, citing court-martial records.

Private Federico Daniel Merida, 21, of the North Carolina National Guard, pleaded guilty to murder without premeditation and other charges during a court-martial in Iraq on September 25.

Merida was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Merida, who was born in Veracruz, Mexico, has a wife and toddler son.

Army officials at Forward Operating Base Danger, where the court-martial was held in Iraq, had previously withheld details of the case.

But The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, reported today that records show Merida and the Iraqi were on guard duty on May 11 in a tower on the perimeter of an army camp near Tikrit in northern Iraq. At around 10.30pm, Merida shot the teenager 11 times with his carbine.

Merida first told investigators the 17-year-old demanded money at gunpoint. Later, he said he killed the boy because he forced him to have sex. In a third interview, Merida said he got angry after the two had consensual sex.

He also pleaded guilty to two counts of giving false statements.

Merida apologised to the victim?s family during the court-martial, records show. ?He was a son, a brother, someone very important to them,? he said. ?I took someone they loved and cared for.?


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They should pass people from psychological tests before sending them to defend the freedom of their country in a foreign land....

That is just fucked up... strange story

Will the hellacious stories coming out of Iraq ever end? I think that place makes people crazy.

Every society has a lot of fucked up persons and a large number of them end up in military. When I was serving I had to deal with a lot of people which outside the army I wouldn't say hello to them. Some of them were fucked up personalities under big pressure would commit anything.

gotta feel sorry for the wife in this case. of course not to mention the victims family. :(

thats fucked up

25 years? What a slap on the wrist. They should shoot that fucker 11 times.

Wow that's one fucked up story :(

How does consensual sex = gay rape?

it's not,

the title is from a previous article about the same issue. (http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0772)

thank you!

Before all the anti Americans come in and start bashing all us Americans...


Iraqi Taxi cab driver kills women for his job..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6786282/?GT1=6065

So now the two acted like reunited cousins. The driver explained that he lived in Mahmoudiya, but came every day to Baghdad to work the cab, which he used for his "real job."

"And what's that?"

"I specialize in killing women," he said.

for the record my last name is not merida

so that makes killing that boy okay? you got a pretty messed up idea of what an american is supposed to be.

Thanks for posting that one. Interesting read for sure.

A lot more shit far worse will continue. Thank Bush.

Yeah it's a fucking freak show over there.

Maybe you should say " anti-war people" instead of anti-american ...


:2 cents:
i know it is hard for a lot of you to measure the difference ....

BTW, this morning in our local newspaper, there was a picture of Lt. Shwan Harris, of USS shoup ( born in Santiago, California) holding an injured child , victim of the Tsunami...

So , as stated above, the military of any country has bad apples in it, and the situation thaat they are ordered in can bring out the bad out of them...

The real guilty party here is the American Administration, the hawks that plotted to invaded this sovereign country that was no threat to you...

Oh my .... This is really fucked up. Damn this..

Merida first told investigators the 17-year-old demanded money at gunpoint. Later, he said he killed the boy because he forced him to have sex. In a third interview, Merida said he got angry after the two had consensual sex.

Samething I was thinking while reading the article.

That is sad, and fucked up.

I am willing to bet that more of the gay sex will be going on, than any one can imagine. It's not like these guys get to see women dressed in nice clothes and wearing perfume and heels. The only thing that see are women in sheets, and other soldiers. The wrong comment to another soldier, and they are screwed, and we have all seen why most of them wear the sheets over there.

That's a crazy story. There will probably be more to come.

lmfao, what the fuck does that have to do with this? There's a crazy guy in somewhere in Iraq, so it's ok for American soldiers to rape and murder young Iraqi boys? What kind of shit do you pump yourself full of to make yourself this dumbed down? I'm seriously interested.

Whoops, I'm being "anti-American".

This is becomming another vietnam! the stories you are hearing! same shit was going on over there! :Oh crap

We wouldn't have many soldiers left, if that was the case.

Only they're not showing the truth on TV, so its not going to end. Back in the 60s-70s, the US had a real media, not a bunch of government propaganda machines. People forget that the only reason they left Vietnam was because journalists where actually showing the truth about what was happening. This war is never going to end, because they're not showing whats really going on, they're just glamorizing it so people won't oppose it.

my thoughts exactly

oh my god this makes me sick

i want to puke

Yeah really sucks, too many wakos in this world..........

I said what I ment.. I'm personally Anti - Iraq War.. However I get sick of all the haters here on this board that are sure to jump in and start bashing America.

don't be stupid..

defending freedom??? Most of the world thinks of it as invading a foreign country for oil...