Iraq:The family of a teenage Iraqi girl gang-raped and murdered by US troops said yesterday they were disappointed that a soldier sentenced to 110 years in jail for the crime did not receive the death penalty.
Pte Jesse Spielman was found guilty of four counts of murder, rape, conspiracy to commit rape, and housebreaking with intent to commit rape by a US military court in Kentucky on Saturday over the March 2006 attack.
Abeer Qassim al-Janabiat, her parents and younger sister were shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad. "We were expecting the death penalty against those criminals and the place to carry out the sentence is where the incident happened," Janabiat's cousin, Abu Ammar, said.
Spielman was one of five soldiers charged over the attack on the girl and her family.
- (Reuters)