Female Airman Punished for Threesome

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Stars and Stripes | Scott Schonauer | May 24, 2007
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany - A Spangdahlem-based airman was sentenced Monday to four months confinement for her part in a sexual act with two other airmen.

Airman 1st Class Ashley N. Rains pleaded guilty at a court-martial to two indecent acts charges.

She had faced rape and sodomy charges but admitted to the lesser charges as part of a plea deal.

Judge (Col.) Gordon Hammock also sentenced Rains, 22, an aircrew life support specialist with the 22nd Fighter Squadron, to reduction to the lowest pay grade.

She faced a maximum sentence that included as many as 10 years in a military prison, but Air Force prosecutors argued for a lighter sentence of two years.

The alcohol-induced menage a trois on Sept. 24 in Bitburg included a male airman and a female staff sergeant.

But both prosecution and defense lawyers debated whether it was consensual among the three.

Rains and Airman Christopher D. Hicks are the only airmen charged in the incident because the Air Force lawyers said the staff sergeant was too drunk to give consent.

Air Force prosecutor Capt. Mike Felsen said the staff sergeant “appeared drunk” and slipped “in and out of consciousness” while Rains and Hicks performed sexual acts with her.

Felsen argued the staff sergeant, who did not testify during the trial, was vulnerable and Rains and Hicks took advantage of her.

But Rains’ defense attorney, Capt. Matthew King, called the incident a situation involving three consenting adults with “various degrees of intoxication.”

King argued that Rains shouldn’t go to jail for what amounts to a drunken threesome.

“Does she really have to go to jail for this?” he asked.

The Air Force had charged Rains with rape and sodomy, but prosecutors could not prove the more serious charges, King added, therefore, the question of consent isn’t relevant in Rains’ case.

Rains said she was embarrassed by the episode.

“I’ve learned from this mistake,” she said during a statement she read at the trial.

Hicks faces more serious charges.

The airman, who is assigned to the 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron, has been charged with rape and sodomy and will face a court-martial at Spangdahlem Air Base on May 30.

"Now I wish I would have joined the Air Force," said Slicker. "All the threesomes in the Navy involve three guys."

[Eternal Padawan]

As a member of the jury, I feel compelled to go over whatever video footage there was again and again, so as to be able to render an impartial verdict.

I'm going to go watch it again right now.

[vynsane]

sounds like one of them was punished IN the three-way...

and that's why i don't watch the news anymore. it's too freakin' hot.

[Eternal Padawan]

I reserve judgment until I see photos of the Airmen involved (and by Airmen, I mean Airwomen). I get the feeling if she was good looking, there would have been MANY photos accompanying the article, like that teacher that nailed that underage kid down in Florida. The lack of photo-journalism involved in the menage suggests fugliness...

[Snigtad Flornbi]

i haev onley had three ways with ur MOMS! + vynsaine's mom was werried be case eternal patawan's mom sucks dick + she thaught i'd liek her beter, but i fucked em both

[Eternal Padawan]

Snigtad, your photo cracks me up every time.

Kudos!

[Snigtad Flornbi]

kudoes are for fags fags liek YO!!!