Female Airman Punished for Threesome
 

Female Airman Punished for Threesome

Stars and Stripes
By Scott Schonauer
May 24, 2007

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.

The alcohol-induced menage a trois on Sept. 24 in Bitburg included a male airman and a female staff sergeant.

But both prosecution and defense lawyers debated whether it was consensual among the three.

Rains and Airman Christopher D. Hicks are the only airmen charged in the incident because the Air Force lawyers said the staff sergeant was too drunk to give consent.

Air Force prosecutor Capt. Mike Felsen said the staff sergeant ?appeared drunk? and slipped ?in and out of consciousness? while Rains and Hicks performed sexual acts with her.

Felsen argued the staff sergeant, who did not testify during the trial, was vulnerable and Rains and Hicks took advantage of her.

But Rains? defense attorney, Capt. Matthew King, called the incident a situation involving three consenting adults with ?various degrees of intoxication.?

King argued that Rains shouldn?t go to jail for what amounts to a drunken threesome.

?Does she really have to go to jail for this?? he asked.

The Air Force had charged Rains with rape and sodomy, but prosecutors could not prove the more serious charges, King added, therefore, the question of consent isn?t relevant in Rains? case.

Rains said she was embarrassed by the episode.

?I?ve learned from this mistake,? she said during a statement she read at the trial.

Hicks faces more serious charges.

The airman, who is assigned to the 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron, has been charged with rape and sodomy and will face a court-martial at Spangdahlem Air Base on May 30.

that is ridiculous

"rape and sodomy" < hello...?

what kind of world do we live in when we can't rape and sodomize girls who pass out at parties ?!?

the sarge must have complained

Yup, and the US UCMJ states that they can also charge you under military law for being unfaithful. Even if your spouse were to allow it. Nice way to treat someone who already sacrificed for her country. Fuckin' idiots.
Jail Time for a 3some... fuckin' yikes.

thats a pile of shit, how the fuck can you prosecute 2 people because they were in a 3some?!?! haha the worlds gone to shit

how can people be so dumb to voice outrageous comments about shit they are apparently too stupid to read and/or comprehend?

the world is full of mysteries.

what did they sodomize her with ? sounds like a new niche..

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damn that is brutal

What a fucking joke.

cheaper to kill a civilian iraqi ....

This is weird.

Not as weird as the perfect uptime record of my OC3 server!!!

Um, read the article. No one is being punished for a threesome. They are being punished for raping someone. Big difference.

bunch of bs..

so a really drunk woman has sex with another woman and a man.

the other woman gets a plea and the man is going to be charged with rape and sodomy?

I call bullshit.

hmm i dont really understand how that all works out!

Shes prolly some gutter slut whose boyfriend and her got some staff sgt drunk and forced themselves on her. Looks like they fucked her in the ass too, ass rape is serious business.
HURRRR

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