Posted on Jan 15, 2017
Marine colonel charged with sex assault sent to brig amid new allegations
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https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/marine-colonel-charged-with-sex-assault-sent-to-brig-amid-new-allegations
A Marine colonel accused of sexually assaulting a child was locked up in the brig at Camp Lejeune after investigators uncovered new allegations of misconduct, Marine Corps officials said.
Col. Daniel H. Wilson, 55, was not originally placed in confinement when first charged in November with sexual abuse of a child. Instead, he checked into an inpatient treatment facility in North Carolina, according to his attorney.
But after new allegations of misconduct surfaced in a Naval Criminal Investigation Service probe, the II Marine Expeditionary Force Commanding General, Gen. Walter Lee Miller, Jr., ordered Wilson into immediate confinement at the Marine Corps Installations East Regional Brig facility, Marine Corps officials said Friday night.
"It's unfortunate that they pulled him out of a treatment facility and put him in a confinement facility with no treatment," Wilson's attorney, Phillip Stackhouse, told Marine Corps Times Saturday.
Wilson's attorney declined to say what kind of treatment Wilson was receiving.
The colonel was slated for transfer to another residential treatment facility in Virginia when the general issued the confinement order Friday. "In between the transfer of the North Carolina and the Virginia facility, they basically went in an grabbed him and took him to the Camp Lejeune brig," Stackhouse said in a phone interview.
Wilson is scheduled to face an Article 32 hearing on Jan. 31 at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for the charges leveled in November that include sexual assault and sexual abuse of a child; assault consummated by battery on a child under the age of 16; failure to obey a general order or regulation and conduct unbecoming of an officer.
The Article 32 hearing will help determine whether the colonel faces a court martial.
The recent alleged misconduct occurred after the initial charges were preferred on Nov. 15, 2016, according to a statement from II MEF.
Stackhouse said the new allegations are "completely dissimilar and unrelated" to the child sex assault charges leveled against Wilson in November..
"He's become a very soft target for anyone who wants to say anything they want to," Stackhouse said.
Wilson became II MEF’s operations officer on April 30. He was reassigned to administrative duties after II MEF and the NCIS began investigating him.
A Marine colonel accused of sexually assaulting a child was locked up in the brig at Camp Lejeune after investigators uncovered new allegations of misconduct, Marine Corps officials said.
Col. Daniel H. Wilson, 55, was not originally placed in confinement when first charged in November with sexual abuse of a child. Instead, he checked into an inpatient treatment facility in North Carolina, according to his attorney.
But after new allegations of misconduct surfaced in a Naval Criminal Investigation Service probe, the II Marine Expeditionary Force Commanding General, Gen. Walter Lee Miller, Jr., ordered Wilson into immediate confinement at the Marine Corps Installations East Regional Brig facility, Marine Corps officials said Friday night.
"It's unfortunate that they pulled him out of a treatment facility and put him in a confinement facility with no treatment," Wilson's attorney, Phillip Stackhouse, told Marine Corps Times Saturday.
Wilson's attorney declined to say what kind of treatment Wilson was receiving.
The colonel was slated for transfer to another residential treatment facility in Virginia when the general issued the confinement order Friday. "In between the transfer of the North Carolina and the Virginia facility, they basically went in an grabbed him and took him to the Camp Lejeune brig," Stackhouse said in a phone interview.
Wilson is scheduled to face an Article 32 hearing on Jan. 31 at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for the charges leveled in November that include sexual assault and sexual abuse of a child; assault consummated by battery on a child under the age of 16; failure to obey a general order or regulation and conduct unbecoming of an officer.
The Article 32 hearing will help determine whether the colonel faces a court martial.
The recent alleged misconduct occurred after the initial charges were preferred on Nov. 15, 2016, according to a statement from II MEF.
Stackhouse said the new allegations are "completely dissimilar and unrelated" to the child sex assault charges leveled against Wilson in November..
"He's become a very soft target for anyone who wants to say anything they want to," Stackhouse said.
Wilson became II MEF’s operations officer on April 30. He was reassigned to administrative duties after II MEF and the NCIS began investigating him.
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I'm an assault survivor and the people who commit these horrible crimes come from all walks of life. I understand the feelings of another Marine, but I'm glad the military is finally doing something with these predators.
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My knee jerk response is to say a true Marine would never commit such a horrible act- I do feel that way in my heart. As a mother, grandmother, my thoughts are much more "violent" I have no compassion for someone who takes advantage of another who can't defend themselves. Marines are protectors of the gate- we stop the bad guys. I'm embarrassed that the bad guy wore an E.G.A.
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Capt Tom Brown
Of course if proven to be true in a court of law, civilian or military, this sort of act would merit the harshest treatment possible with no mercy shown. But I am willing to let the system run its course as there are no facts or details made public in this article. Not quite like yr Bergdahl case.
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GySgt Melissa Gravila
Capt Tom Brown - very true, a part of me hopes it ISN'T true ( a Marine, and all of the psychological pain that child has endured/will endure). But if it is proven that he is guilty, he deserves everything done to him and more.
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I would hope that it's not true SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL. However, if it is (and it does APPEAR so), he needs to be put away forever. These types of sexual predators can't be rehabilitated. They don't get well. TSgt Dawn Premock GySgt Melissa Gravila
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GySgt Melissa Gravila
This article makes me ill- I remember years ago, being stationed at P.I.S.C. and there was a "Marine" (notice the quotation marks- true Marines wouldn't do this shit) charged with assault on his child. They brought him into the mess Hall, I refused to serve him. If he was drowning I wouldn't waste my time spitting on him
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