SAN DIEGO — A Marine at California’s Camp Pendleton has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old woman who was present in a base barracks, the army introduced Friday.
Army prosecutors charged the Marine with sexual assault of a minor and with violating liberty restriction from an earlier, unrelated case. After a preliminary listening to scheduled for Aug. 17, authorities will resolve whether or not he’ll face a court-martial, stated an announcement from Capt. Charles Palmer with the first Marine Logistics Group.
The Marine’s identification and different particulars of the case, reminiscent of when and the way he met {the teenager} and the way she bought onto the bottom, weren’t instantly launched.
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The woman had been lacking for greater than two weeks when army police situated her inside a barracks on June 28 on the base 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of San Diego.
Her grandmother has stated the woman ran away in early June. Different kinfolk have speculated that she was offered by a intercourse trafficker.
She has been returned to her grandmother in suburban Spring Valley, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Division stated.
All guests are stopped on the entrance to the sprawling base by Marines and required to point out authorization to enter the bottom. Marines are allowed to convey a customer on base and into the barracks till a sure hour, which varies in line with every constructing.
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