Sergeant not guilty of Camp Walker rape

Sergeant not guilty of Camp Walker rape
By Ashley Rowland, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday December 13, 2007

CAMP HENRY, South Korea — A jury panel on Tuesday found a 29-year-old sergeant not guilty of raping a 20-year-old private in her Camp Walker barracks room in June after a night of drinking.

Sgt. Quincy Babers also was acquitted on charges of making a false official statement and unlawful entry.

Babers, a supply sergeant with the 19th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), said he wasn’t surprised by the verdict at the end of the one-day trial.

“The truth came out,” he said Tuesday evening.

Babers and his fiancee said the past six months have been the worst of their lives, with Babers being forced to stay in South Korea and away from his children in the United States while awaiting trial. He was supposed to leave the country in August.


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