Staff sergeant acquitted of rape in Okinawa court-martial

Staff sergeant acquitted of rape in Okinawa court-martial
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=33702

{EXCERPT} GI gets 90 days, reduction in rank for adultery, break-in,
by David Allen, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Thursday, December
15, 2005

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa ? An Army staff sergeant was sentenced to 90
days? confinement and reduced to the rank of E-5 on Tuesday after a
court-martial panel found him guilty of housebreaking and adultery for
having sex with a private first class.

Staff Sgt. Kelvin Stanfield, 33, assigned to the 10th Area Support
Group, smiled and shook the hands of the noncommissioned officers from
his unit who sat in the spectator rows to show their support.
Stanfield would have faced a far different outcome had he been found
guilty of all charges against him.

Earlier Tuesday, the panel of three officers and four enlisted members
had found him not guilty of raping the private.

The charges stemmed from a report the 35-year-old woman made on June
4, after Stanfield crawled through the first-floor window of her
barracks room on Torii Station and had sex with her. Stanfield
admitted to climbing through the woman?s window the night of June 3...

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