Found dead on the military base in Balad, Iraq in July, 2005, a short time after she began serving there, the United States Army ruled 19 year old Pfc. Lavena Johnson’s death as a suicide resulting from a self-inflicted M-16 rifle shot wound, and sent her home in a box. …
Lavena Johnson. I haven’t written of her case in some time because, despite all the congressional hearings late last year on the issue of sexual assault in the military, her case has never been specifically addressed, and the case has yet to be reopened. A new president was elected, and …
A disturbing precedent concerning murder of the foreign born — there was no indication that those who beat Luis Ramirez to death knew he was an undocumented immigrant — has been set in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Teenagers Not Guilty in Fatal Beating A Mexican man named Luis Ramirez was beaten …
April 30th 2001, before 9/11, nothing much to cover news wise, when 24 year old Chandra Levy a Washington Intern disappeared. There was a recent series on this, Who Killed Chandra Levy, in the Washington Post, which sparked off memories of this incident. It occurred at the end of my …
The the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs did not hear the LaVena Johnson case today at their Oversight Hearing on Sexual Assault in the Military. The transcripts of the meeting can be found at the sight. The House Arms Services committee is reviewing the case, but the Army …
