Documents: Missing Marine Claimed Rape

[unhappycamper]

Documents: Missing Marine Claimed Rape
Associated Press | January 10, 2008

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - A pregnant Marine who vanished last month before she was to testify in a military probe claimed "a senior officer ... had raped her and that the investigation had gone sour," according to new court documents.

The woman made the allegation to her stepmother, who also told investigators looking for the 20-year-old lance corporal that her stepdaughter was bipolar and had a history of compulsive lying, the documents filed this week state.

Military officials said Thursday they had ordered the missing Marine's roommate, Sgt. Daniel Durham, to return from training in California to answer questions about the case.

Durham is believed to be the last person to speak with the lance corporal. He was to return to Camp Lejeune as soon as possible, Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said.

Brown did not describe Durham as a suspect, adding that the case remained a missing persons investigation.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,159774,00.html

[aquart]

1. We have bipolar marines? HOW MANY?

[orleans]

2. and how many clinically depressed?

(accounting for the high suicide rate)

[aquart]

3. Are we so desperate we are actively recruiting people who can't take the strain?