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England to be sentenced for detainee abuse
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-27 22:05
England, from Fort Ashby, W.Va., has said that Graner, now serving a 10-year
sentence, fathered her young son. The defense argued that England suffered from
depression and that she has an overly compliant personality, making her a
heedless participant in the abuse.
Graner, a defense witness at the sentencing, said pictures he took of England
holding a prisoner on a leash were meant to be used as a training aid. In her
earlier guilty plea, England had said the pictures were being taken purely for
the amusement of Abu Ghraib guards.
Late Monday, presiding judge Col. James Pohl rejected a request by Crisp to
allow testimony during the sentencing phase by an Army captain who has reported
similar prisoner abuse by other U.S. soldiers at a camp near Fallujah around the
same time as the Abu Ghraib incidents.
Crisp said testimony by Capt. Ian Fishback would provide evidence of a
command breakdown in Iraq that might have led England and other soldiers to
think detainee mistreatment was condoned by military leaders.
But the judge ruled that he saw no proof that the two abuse situations were
related, or that abuse elsewhere would in any way lessen the blame England might
deserve for Abu Ghraib.
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