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    Navy SEAL pleads guilty in 2017 strangulation death of Green Beret

    Navy SEAL pleads guilty in 2017 strangulation death of Green Beret

    I posted about this case before. Hazing gone bad. Very bad.

    A Navy SEAL charged in the strangulation death of an Army Green Beret staff sergeant in 2017 pleaded guilty to reduced charges today.

    During a hearing at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Chief Special Warfare Operator Tony E. DeDolph pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, obstruction of justice, conspiracy charges related to assault and obstruction of justice, and hazing.



    DeDolph faces a maximum punishment of 22 years, six months in prison, reduction to E-1, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, a fine and dishonorable discharge.
    Matthews was the first to plead and laid out many details of the incident.


    “I cannot describe how sorry I am for the death of Staff Sgt. Melgar,” Matthews testified in a military courtroom in Norfolk in May 2019.


    “I’ve carried the weight of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar’s death every minute of every day since that night in Mali,” Matthews said. “I am tormented by my complacency at a time when my teammates required guidance and the situation required bold, decisive action. This was my fault and I accept total responsibility for the consequences of my poor decision.”


    Matthews received a sentence of one-year confinement and a bad conduct discharge. Maxwell pleaded guilty a month later to negligent homicide, hazing and making false official statements. He was sentenced to four years in prison.


    Both testified that they, along with DeDolph and Madera-Rodriguez, together planned to break into Melgar’s room, duct tape him and video record him in a sexually embarrassing embarassing act.


    The quartet planned their attack during an all-night bar-hopping and drinking session. They used a sledgehammer at around 5 a.m. to break open Melgar’s door and surprise him as he slept, the men testified.
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    That deal is sad for all parties involved. Someone lost their life. Someone lost a son. America lost a patriot and someone will lose their freedom.
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    And the taxpayers. Those SF troops cost a lot of money to train.
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    I am not against hazing but when things go wrong then why does it seem that I am left questioning the sexual deviance of the hazer. "duct tape him and video record him in a sexually embarrassing act". I'm assuming that would be homosexual in nature because i don't know many men embarrassed of sex with woman. I don't want to see that, never mind orchestrating it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    I am not against hazing but when things go wrong then why does it seem that I am left questioning the sexual deviance of the hazer. "duct tape him and video record him in a sexually embarrassing act". I'm assuming that would be homosexual in nature because i don't know many men embarrassed of sex with woman. I don't want to see that, never mind orchestrating it.
    I have read more detail about that plan, and got the same impression that you did.
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    It wasn't a hazing. The SEALs got off a lot lighter than they should have.

    What should have happened is after they were found guilty, they should have been taken to Camp Mackall and turned over to 3d Group for Justice.
    “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

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    Maybe hazing was also just a coverup for sexual assault.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    Maybe hazing was also just a coverup for sexual assault.
    I think the hazing was a sexual assault.
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    This meets the criteria of a Trump pardon. Murder, violence against women

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    This meets the criteria of a Trump pardon. Murder, violence against women
    Who has Trump pardoned that was convicted of murder and violence against women? Link please.
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