Camp Coiner soldier who pummeled comrades gets 10-year sentence

[saigon68]

Camp Coiner soldier who pummeled comrades gets 10-year sentence


By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, May 4, 2005

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28825


YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — A 19-year-old soldier was sentenced Monday to 10 years confinement as part of a plea agreement involving three assaults, including one that left another soldier with permanent brain damage.

Pvt. Rodney A. Brackens Jr., 19, of Marietta, Ga., admitted in the court-martial that he fought with three soldiers at three separate times last year.

In the most serious case, Brackens admitted to beating, kicking and stomping a soldier he didn’t know in December because “I wanted to hit somebody,” he told Army Col. Patrick Parrish of the 6th Judicial Circuit in a courtroom in Yongsan.

Huff’s father testified he received a call from his former wife and an Army representative saying their son lay dying in a military hospital in Seoul. Eric Jr. had a fractured skull, bruised brain, eyes swollen shut and couldn’t breathe on his own, his father remembered.

[meganmonkey]

1. Devastating.

x(

[saigon68]

3. Apparently the cult of sadism

[Sabriel]

2. Maybe he should've tortured him instead

That doesn't seem to get you as much time nowadays....