{"id":114368,"date":"2021-06-07T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114368"},"modified":"2021-06-07T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:40:08","slug":"james-grazioplene-reduced-from-major-general-to-second-lieutenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114368","title":{"rendered":"James Grazioplene reduced from major general to second lieutenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_74252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74252\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74252 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-J.-Grazioplene-266x333.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-J.-Grazioplene-266x333.jpeg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-J.-Grazioplene-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-J.-Grazioplene-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">James J. Grazioplene in official Army photo taken in 1997. (Scott Davis\/Army)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>James Grazioplene pleaded guilty to charges, in a civilian court, for sexually assaulting his daughter while he was serving in the Army. The Secretary of Defense subsequently reduced Grazioplene&#8217;s rank from major general to second lieutenant. He will maintain his retirement benefits as if he retired as a second lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Army Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grazioplene, 71, started his military career with a commission at that same rank out of West Point in 1972. He rose to the rank of two-star general before retiring in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>But his daughter, Jennifer Elmore, later brought allegations that through her entire childhood and at various posts both abroad and in the United States, her father had raped and molested her.<\/p>\n<p>Army Times has a policy of not identifying by name survivors of sex crimes. Elmore agreed to be interviewed on multiple occasions and to be identified publicly in articles about Grazioplene.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations were raised within the family in the years after she left home in the late 1980s, but came to the attention of military officials when Elmore reported the conduct to the Army CID agents at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Army Times has more on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2021\/06\/07\/retired-army-major-general-reduced-to-second-lieutenant-for-sex-crime-conviction\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Grazioplene pleaded guilty to charges, in a civilian court, for sexually assaulting his daughter while &hellip; <a title=\"James Grazioplene reduced from major general to second lieutenant\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114368\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Grazioplene reduced from major general to second lieutenant<\/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":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114368","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=114368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114369,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114368\/revisions\/114369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}