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A Marine stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe will spend 30 years in a military prison for sexually assaulting children in Hawaii and other states.

Staff Sgt. Jawan T. Hale, 37, pleaded guilty to 13 charges of crimes against children as defined by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. He was sentenced Wednesday.

NCIS special agents arrested Staff Sgt. Jawan T. Hale in February 2023 after they got a tip from law enforcement partners and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

The military and veterans' communities have spent years trying to combat suicide rates much higher than the national average. But within those communities, Americans belonging to racial minority groups are experiencing even higher rates, according to analysis by Military.com.

The Air Force Academy preparatory school cadet candidate who wrote racial slurs outside of his and four other cadet candidates’ dorm rooms last year tried to blame his actions on an untreated concussion.

 

The charge sheet against Lt. Col. Ashley R. Ellis details how he allegedly beat, harassed and emotionally abused his wife, doing so on two separate occasions in front of an unnamed child, over a nine-month period between late 2022 and mid-2023 in Chantilly, Virginia, approximately an hour from Fort Belvoir.

The military and veterans' communities have spent years trying to combat suicide rates much higher than the national average. But within those communities, Americans belonging to racial minority groups are experiencing even higher rates, according to analysis by Military.com.

An attorney for Maj. Michael Stockin said the anesthesiologist and pain management specialist intends to "fight against every single allegation."