General Forced to Retire After Sexual Assault Allegation
A US Army general was forced to retire at a reduced rank due to a sexual assault accusation:
A general fired in March 2013 after allegations he sexually assaulted a female civilian adviser said that while he denies the charges, he “accepts the responsibility for becoming intoxicated that evening” and that “due process was followed.”
Then-Maj. Gen. Ralph O. Baker was relieved of his post as head of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa after the investigation, a copy of which was provided recently to The Washington Post via a request under the Freedom of Information Act and served as the basis of an Oct. 1 report. The Army did not respond by press time to a subsequent Army Times request for the investigation.
The Post, citing military documents, outlined the accuser’s account of an alleged July 22, 2012, incident in the back of an SUV headed to Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, after a private party. She said Baker, who’d been drinking, put his hand between her legs. She said she fought off the alleged advances and reported the incident to the Defense Department inspector general the following January, according to the Post, after feeling too embarrassed to notify any other passengers in the vehicle. (Army Times)
You can read more at the link, but here are some quick thoughts. First of all the accusation did not bring criminal charges likely because it was another one of those he said she said cases especially since she told no one in the car of what she claims happened to her. Secondly the term sexual assault has been furthered cheapened. Having someone put their hand up your thigh is inappropriate, but should it be equated with violent rape? Thirdly why is this general drinking and fraternizing with subordinates on a deployment? I am willing to bet that is the real reason for his relief since there was no evidence of the inappropriate contact in the vehicle by the General. With that all said good riddance to this General because the Army does not need senior leaders that think they are still reliving their frat house fraternity days.
Hmmm…
“the accuser’s account of an alleged July 22, 2012, incident’
“reported the incident to the Defense Department inspector general the following January”
So it took 5 to 6 months to report it?
There should be a statute of limitations that is measured in days for this kind of thing. If it is not important enough to report at the first possible time after the incident, it not not important enough to report.
I watched some drunk biitch try to claw some guy’s face at a party and he reservedly pushed her off of him with one hand on her shoulder.. She took two steps back and made a show of falling down on the carpet. Three months later, she was telling everyone how he beat the fukk out of her at the party.
She might even have believed that… as many women are capable of great feats of imagination when they start rolling some target of their hatred around in their heads for a couple months.
My wife can still get fired up over me talking to a 250 pound English teacher at a party 15 years ago. The reality is she was really fun to talk to so I was ignoring my then-girlfriend-now-wife sitting next to me and laughing with the fatty across the table. The story now is that I was completely hitting on her because I wanted to fukk her. Fat chance… pardon the pun.
Generals need to have 24 hour readiness and there should be an unwritten rule that they never drink… but this “sexual assault” is complete bullshyt and, unless there is a very good reason, her half-year delay in reporting it just sounds like she is a trouble-making shrew that needs her career ended before she causes more needless damage.
“My wife can still get fired up over me talking to a 250 pound English teacher at a party 15 years ago. The reality is she was really fun to talk to so I was ignoring my then-girlfriend-now-wife sitting next to me and laughing with the fatty across the table. The story now is that I was completely hitting on her because I wanted to fukk her. Fat chance… pardon the pun.”
At least it wasn’t a mannequin, CH. 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4pUYSzVas
Topic related side note: Yes, women recreate shyte in their heads and believe it absolutely. They start to remember things they believed happened when they were passed out drunk on the floor of their locked bathroom, by themselves…I know a woman who is convinced she was raped in a locked room because she passed out drunk on the floor and removed her own shirt but doesn’t remember doing it. She convinced her husband, too.
Thinking further…it serves you right anyway, CH, for marrying the hot one.
If you’d married a jolly fatty, she’d never give you any lip. 😛
“My wife can still get fired up over me talking to a 250 pound English teacher at a party 15 years ago.” She has to be Asian…selective memory like an elephant…Hell, I get accused of stuff I never did, but tell her if she keeps accusing me, I’m gonna do it…of course that brings on the Asian Typhoon…Ha!