{"id":71655,"date":"2017-04-24T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71655"},"modified":"2017-04-24T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T12:47:32","slug":"major-general-james-grazioplene-charged-with-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71655","title":{"rendered":"Major General James Grazioplene charged with rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/James-Grazioplene-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/James-Grazioplene-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/James-Grazioplene-269x333.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/James-Grazioplene.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Devtun sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/04\/14\/military-sexual-assault-army-general-james-grazioplene\/100483782\/\">USAToday<\/a> which reports that the Army has announced that, even though he retired in 2005, Major General James Grazioplene faces six charges of rape of a minor which happened in the 1980s;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The charges against Grazioplene carry the potential for life in prison and loss of pension, said Don Christensen, president of Protect our Defenders, an advocacy organization for victims of sexual assault in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, the former top Air Force prosecutor, said the next step is for Grazioplene to face an Article 32 hearing, which will determine if Grazioplene&#8217;s case goes to court martial.<\/p>\n<p>Grazioplene, who lives in Gainesville, Va., joined the Army in March 1972 as an armor officer. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., a Ranger and was decorated for his service.<\/p>\n<p>There are no plans to call him back to active duty to face the charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends us a link to the USAToday which reports that the Army has announced that, &hellip; <a title=\"Major General James Grazioplene charged with rape\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71655\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major General James Grazioplene charged with rape<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71655","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}