California Marine charged with sexual assault of lacking 14-year-old woman present in Camp Pendleton barracks
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.
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 determine whether or not he’ll face a court-martial, stated a press release from Capt. Charles Palmer with the first Marine Logistics Group.
The Marine’s id and different particulars of the case, akin to when and the way he met {the teenager} and the way she acquired onto the bottom, weren’t instantly launched.
The woman had been lacking for greater than two weeks when army police situated her inside a barracks on June 28.
Her grandmother has stated the woman ran away in early June. Different kin had speculated that she was offered by a intercourse trafficker.
The woman has been returned to her grandmother in 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 indicate authorization to enter the bottom. Marines are allowed to deliver a customer on base and into the barracks till a sure hour, which varies in accordance with every constructing.
