US soldier’s rape sentence cut due to Iraq stress

Apparently having been on tour in Iraq is now “extenuating circumstances.” Apparently it had “made him less sensitive to the suffering of others.” The sentence was thus reduced from eight years to five years and eight months.
[James Michael] Brown beat and handcuffed the woman, a Nigerian resident in the town of Vicenza. He raped her [...]

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