Soldier pleads guilty to Iraq rape and killings

Specialist Barker’s plea bargain means that he will not face the death penalty, his lawyers said Tuesday. Although he will probably be given a life sentence, the lawyers said, he could be released on parole in 20 years.

The following is a true example of the Military criminal justice system:
Another member of the group, Navy Petty Officer Third Class Melson J. Bacos was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison, but will only serve one year because of the plea agreement.

One of four Army infantrymen charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in Iraq last March and then killing her and her family pleaded guilty today to all charges in a military court at Fort Campbell, Ky.

The plea came on a day when a marine is scheduled to be sentenced at Camp Pendleton, Calif., for his part in the kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi man in a town to the west of Baghdad.

The legal actions are part of the fallout of the fighting in Iraq, where insurgent fighters blend in with the civilian population, frustrating soldiers who are subject to roadside bombing and other attacks.

In a third case, a Marine Corps reservist was sentenced to six months in a military jail after pleading guilty at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to a charge of negligent homicide in the shooting of a fellow marine last year at their barracks in Iraq.

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