Comments on: Breaking: Pfc. Steven Green Guilty of Rape, Murder

By: citygal

citygal — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:15:04 +0000

Helmut newton was a faux S&M fashion photographer

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:09:02 +0000

Sorry to come back to this so late. I’m afraid I can’t answer your question, am not a lawyer. I hope that one of the lawyers who frequents FDL will see your comment — perhaps even Christy or looseheadprop with their backgrounds could be of some help.

By: bushbehindbars

bushbehindbars — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:13:49 +0000

And goddamn the evil motherfuckers who started this little clusterfuck to enrich their buddies at Halliburton and the oil cartels. Justice needs to be served, pronto!!

By: BitterScribe

BitterScribe — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:19:52 +0000

Who knows, maybe this guy would have raped and killed an American girl if he hadn’t been a soldier. But the war probably did a lot to hone those impulses and release inhibitions.

In “Girls of Tender Age,” Mary-Ann Tirone Smith masterfully tells the story of Robert Nelson Malm, who at age 12 started his long career of molesting little girls. He joined the Navy during World War II and eventually found himself on conquered Okinawa. Tirone Smith writes of him: “He could only have sex successfully with preadolescent girls and only after terrorizing and hurting them, leaving some of them unconscious and, possibly, dead. A man could get away with this in Okinawa.” About 10 years later, he raped and murdered an 11-year-old girl in Hartford, Connecticut. He strangled her with her own scarf, tied in a square knot he had learned in the Navy.

In Malm’s case, his military service seems to have exacerbated a latent pathology. Who knows, maybe that was so in this case, too. The military is going to have to be more careful in its screening.

(P.S. If you can, read “Girls of Tender Age.” It’s a fascinating book: half crime story, half personal memoir.)

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:43:45 +0000

There are actually more who were already convicted for this particular crime(s), but I will let those more familiar with the story fill you in.

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:42:06 +0000

Thanks Siun. I seem to be having some pilot errors with the reply button. :|

By: susiedow

susiedow — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:39:05 +0000

One man. Responsible for at least 7 deaths. And the killing just doesn’t stop. 8 if he gets the death penalty.

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:31:01 +0000

For Du at 32…(I forgot to hit the reply button…)

Oh! Wow.

Obviously, I have not been up to speed on this story, so thanks again for bringing it up here. And I did go over to check out young Evan Bright’s work. It’s very good and I recommend it for the rest of the readers!

I have sympathy for our young men and women serving in the military, but not so much for those individuals like Green, who were already a danger to society, whichever society he found himself in. Sorry that’s harsh…

By: Dubhaltach

Dubhaltach — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:09:55 +0000

*poof*

By: Dubhaltach

Dubhaltach — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:07:48 +0000

He was tried in a civilian court under the terms of the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act because he had left the army before charges were brought. (And the army refused to let he reenlist to give him the chance to have a court martial rather than a civilian trial)