Spc. Jadon G. Bosarge has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a group sexual assault last year of an ROTC student. (Abner Guzman/U.S. Air Force)
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — The second of four soldiers charged in a group sexual assault last year of an ROTC student in barracks has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the crime.
Spc. Jadon G. Bosarge, 24, pleaded guilty on Oct. 16 to one specification of sexual assault and requested a trial by judge, according to a posting in the Army Court-Martial Public Record System.
Lt. Col. Alan Nef, the military judge, accepted Bosarge’s plea and sentenced him to 60 months in prison, reduction to the Army’s lowest grade, E-1, and a dishonorable discharge upon his release from prison. He will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release.
Additional charges of sexual assault, indecent recording, conspiracy and obstruction of justice were dropped.
“The sentence was consistent with the terms of a plea agreement,” the Army said in the posting of Bosarge’s sentencing.
Bosarge was a communications repair specialist with the 125th Forward Support Company, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Artillery Brigade at Lewis-McChord.
According to an Army investigation, the ROTC student was partying with the four soldiers on Oct. 27, 2024, at a barracks unit at Lewis-McChord, a joint Army-Air Force installation about 20 miles south of Tacoma.
The group was drinking heavily, and the women became inebriated and later unconscious. The soldiers were charged with having sex with the woman without her consent and at times when she was not conscious. They also recorded some of the sex acts and posted them on social media.
On Sept. 5, Pvt. Deron J. Gordon, 20, pleaded guilty to one specification each of sexual assault, abusive sexual contact and indecent recording. He received 75 months in prison, a reduction in rank to E-1, and after his sentence is served, he will be given a dishonorable discharge. Upon his release, he will be required to register as a sex offender.
Two other cases are pending from the incident.
Cpl. Pedro Angel Ruiz, 29, is scheduled to go to trial on Nov. 3 , according to the website of the Army Judge Advocate General. He has not entered a plea. He is not being held in pretrial confinement.
Pfc. Kallon Curiel, 19, is scheduled to go to trial on March 23, 2026, according to the website of the Army Judge Advocate General. He faces multiple charges, including sexual assault, indecent recording and obstruction of justice. He was additionally charged in Arizona with sexual assault of a child. He has not entered a plea to the charges.
Curiel is currently being held in pretrial confinement at the Northwestern Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Lewis-McChord.
Under Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, sexual assault is just below rape. It’s defined as a sexual act upon another person without their consent. It includes when “the person knows or reasonably should know that the other person is asleep, unconscious or otherwise unaware that the sexual act is occurring” or is “incapable of consenting to the sexual act” due to drugs, alcohol or other substances.
The woman’s name has been said aloud in the courtroom during proceedings. Stars and Stripes does not reveal the identities of victims of sexual crimes.
The Office of Special Trial Counsel, based at Fort Belvoir, Va., handles the prosecution of all major sex crimes in the Army.
Michelle McCaskill, the OSTC spokeswoman, said in September that the ROTC student has been commissioned as an Army officer.
