N.J. Soldier Gets 6 Months for Abu Ghraib Crimes

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › February 07, 2005

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FORT HOOD, Texas - An Army sergeant from New Jersey who admitted abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in late 2003 was sentenced Friday to six months in a military prison and given a bad- conduct discharge from the Army.

A nine-man military jury deliberated for about 5 1/2 hours to determine the punishment for Javal Davis, a former Abu Ghraib guard who earlier this week confessed to stepping on the hands and feet of a group of handcuffed detainees and falling with his full weight on top of them.

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N.J. Soldier Gets 6 Months for Abu Ghraib Crimes

The 27-year-old reservist from Roselle ...

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