Soldier gets 30 days, reduced rank for beating

Soldier gets 30 days, reduced rank for beating
By Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, May 11, 2008

CAMP CASEY, South Korea — A 2nd Infantry Division soldier who beat and humiliated a naked soldier will go to jail for 30 days and lose his rank.

Spc. Tristan M. Edinboro, 21, will be reduced in rank to E-2, pending acceptance of military Judge Col. Donna Wright’s sentence by the convening authority.

Edinboro and Pfc. Gregory Brown stripped and beat the soldier in his barracks in two separate episodes following a New Year’s Eve argument at Black Jack Club in Dongducheon.

Defense attorney Capt. Brigid Osei-Bobie read a statement from Edinboro, of Company A, 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment. In the statement, Edinboro explained that he was upset because he had lost a leave pass because of a field exercise.

“I think I let some of that anger out on (the victim),” Edinboro said. “I am truly sorry for that."


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