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| Indian man charged with sexually assaulting a U.S. national in Afghanistan |
| 2019-11-20 |
| [KhaamaPress] The Department of Justice of the United States has announced that a federal grand jury has charged an Indian national with two accounts of aggravated sexual abuse and one account of abusive sexual contact. According to a statement released by Department of Justice, the federal jury in the District of Columbia charted the 35-year-old Lokesh Naik with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contract on on Nov. 6, 2019. The statement further added "U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan arrested Naik on Nov. 8, 2019, and his initial appearance was held before U.S. Magistrate Judge Harvey via video teleconference, at which time Naik was ordered detained and removed to the United States pursuant to the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA)." According to the indictment, on Aug. 7, while working as an employee of a U.S. military contractor on Operating Base Fenty, Afghanistan, Naik allegedly entered the room of a 24-year-old U.S. national and sexually assaulted her by force. The Department of Justice also added in its statement that "The charges in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 This is one of those nasty issues created when you decide to be a world power and being twisting and turning the Constitution to fit your convoluted legal system. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. 6th Amendment In older times before the judiciary decided to become America's aristocracy, these matter would have been settled locally, by the ship's captain or ground commander. So instead we 're-interpret' the Constitution. Just another brick in the wall of judicial rewrite of the contract. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-20 06:38 |