{"id":38413,"date":"2013-11-14T08:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38413"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:10:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:10:45","slug":"jeffrey-krusinski-acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38413","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Krusinski, Acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that Air Force, LTC Jeffrey Krusinski, the former head of the Pentagon\u2019s sexual assault prevention program, was acquitted of assaulting a young woman outside of a Crystal City bar several weeks back;<\/p>\n

Barry Coburn, Krusinski\u2019s attorney, highlighted what he called inconsistencies in the woman\u2019s account of a fracas after the alleged grab, and said those were enough to give jurors reasonable doubt. He hinted that Krusinski might have grazed the woman by accident on a narrow sidewalk.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the woman, a 23-year-old American University graduate, testified emotionally about the encounter with Krusinski, saying she felt \u201ctotally violated.\u201d She said she was on the phone with a friend outside Freddie\u2019s Beach Bar when Krusinski came up behind her, gave her behind a \u201csqueeze,\u201d and \u201casked me if I liked it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman said she followed Krusinksi and confronted him, pushing and punching him in the face.<\/p>\n

A server from the bar testified that she too was groped by Krusinski that night, along with one of her co-workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That seems pretty cut and dried, but he was acquitted nonetheless. By a civilian jury. So, if there\u2019s a problem with the people being punished for sexual assault, the problem doesn\u2019t seem to be a strictly military problem, as the media would have us believe. Congress wants more control over the outcome of these cases regarding the application of the UCMJ, but it seems to me that, since this guy was acquitted in a civilian trial, the problem is with the justice system and not strictly a military issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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