Servicemember found guilty
of assault in Kuwait
By Jon R. Anderson,
Stars and Stripes
In a rare Army court-martial held in the Middle East, a soldier was
found guilty last week of slashing a civilian across the head with a beer bottle in the
Arabian Peninsula country of Qatar.
Sgt. Rudolf Peters, a member of the 385th Signal Company in Kuwait,
was on duty in Qatar in February when the incident occurred, according to Army spokeswoman
Lt. Col. Bonnie Herbert.
Peters was found guilty of assault by a court-martial panel after a
three-day trial held in Kuwait that ended July 18.
The panel, made up of officers and enlisted soldiers, sentenced him
to a bad conduct discharge, confinement for six months, total forfeiture of pay and
allowances and reduction to E-1, Herbert said. Peters will serve his sentence at the
Army’s jail in Mannheim, Germany.
Officials did not release the name of the victim, but said Peters
severely cut his ear.
“Peters had been drinking at a party in Qatar,” Herbert
said, “went to the bathroom and hit the victim in the head with a bottle.”
This is only the second Army court-martial case in the region in the past year, Herbert
said.
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