USA: Former Marine drill instructor found guilty of abusing Muslim recruits

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The jury found Felix guilty of hitting, choking or kicking around a dozen recruits; of being drunk and disorderly; and of making false statements to an investigator.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit:  Fresno Bee
By Wade Livingston | November 10, 2017

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – A jury has found a former Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island drill instructor guilty of abusing three Muslim former trainees, multiple violations of military law and striking a recruit in the face moments before his fatal fall.

An eight-member panel of half officers, half enlisted men, began deliberating the U.S. government's case against Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix around 8 a.m. Thursday and delivered the verdict more than 12 hours later.

Felix was found guilty of maltreatment of Muslim former recruits Ameer Bourmeche, Rekan Hawez and Raheel Siddiqui. The jury found that Felix ordered Hawez and Bourmeche into industrial clothes dryers in separate instances in July 2015. The jury found Felix turned on the dryer while Bourmeche was in it and, when the machine was turned off, forced him to recant his faith.

Felix was also found guilty of making Siddiqui run punitive sprints and slapping the recruit in the face moments before his death on March 18, 2016.

The jury found Felix guilty of hitting, choking or kicking around a dozen recruits; of being drunk and disorderly; and of making false statements to an investigator.

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