{"id":101151,"date":"2020-06-19T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101151"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:47:30","slug":"sailors-and-prostitutes-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101151","title":{"rendered":"Sailors and Prostitutes in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
Gunners Mate 2nd Class Jihad Littlejohn was one of the Sailors that the NCIS investigated for a prostitution-related case.\u00a0 (Navy)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Navy investigation revealed that Sailors in Bahrain were involved with trafficking and managing prostitution. Jihad Littlejohn coordinated with one of the prostitutes to bring more women to Bahrain. Then, he housed them in his off-post housing. He received a cut of the profits.<\/p>\n

From the Military Times:<\/span><\/p>\n

“You want some?” she asked the sailor in a text.<\/p>\n

“Hell yea I do,” Littlejohn replied.<\/p>\n

“Girls for what?” he asked.<\/p>\n

“Work. Make money,” Raiwest answered. “Don’t tell nobody tho.”<\/p>\n

Navy prosecutors later cited the text message exchange to allege that the duo had hatched a plan to fly several women in from Thailand, house them in Littlejohn’s off-post apartment and put them to work selling sex, with Littlejohn expected to take a cut of their earnings.<\/p>\n

The petty officer would “take their passports, take their freedom,” Navy prosecutor Lt. Ty Christian said at Littlejohn’s trial in August 2019.<\/p>\n

To seal the deal, Littlejohn allegedly paid Raiwest 1,000 Bahraini dinar (about $2,650 at the time) to front the cost of getting the prostitutes from Thailand to Bahrain, according to court records.<\/p>\n

In return, Raiwest gave him her passport as collateral.<\/p>\n

Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents raided Littlejohn’s apartment in September 2017 and found Raiwest’s passport hidden in a safe, according to court records and testimony.<\/p>\n

For reasons that remain unclear, Raiwest didn’t testify at Littlejohn’s trial and the petty officer was acquitted on all charges last summer.<\/p>\n

But in 2017, this alleged partnership between Littlejohn and Raiwest — chronicled in the text messages she provided to NCIS — helped spark a web of investigations that revealed how deeply involved some U.S. sailors had become with the commercial sex trade in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Throughout the next year, those probes uncovered evidence that sailors were housing prostitutes in their taxpayer-funded apartments, seizing the women’s passports and taking a cut of the women’s earnings, profiting from a sex trade that serviced shipmates who lived on the island or came ashore during port calls.<\/p>\n

Allegations of brutal sexual assaults on the vulnerable woman also came to light, as did evidence of at least one sailor acting as an enforcer for local prostitutes, shaking down a shipmate for payments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Military Times article<\/a> has extensive coverage of the NCIS’s investigation and the Navy’s reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Navy investigation revealed that Sailors in Bahrain were involved with trafficking and managing prostitution. Jihad … Sailors and Prostitutes in Bahrain<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,119,155],"tags":[560,558,559],"class_list":["post-101151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-navy","category-shitbags","tag-bahrain","tag-littlejohn","tag-prostitute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101191,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101151\/revisions\/101191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}