Date:         Mon, 12 Sep 1994 10:20:04 -0400
From: PMDAtropos <pmdatropos@aol.com>
Subject:      Non-gay military officer harrased

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San Diego, USA, September 5, 1994 - A military court has acquited Petty
Officer Third Class Garrett Trance of charges for asking a shipmate to
break his leg so he could escape the sexual harassment aboard the USS
Constellation. According to his attorney, Charles T. Bumer, Trance was
being sexually harassed because his shipmates mistakenly believed he was
gay.

Trance, admitting to persuading Airman Wesley Newell into commiting the
act with a steel pipe on February 19th, was acquited last week on charges
of conspiracy, missing the movement of a ship, and malingering.

Newell was sentenced to three months of confinement, a bad-conduct
discharge and a fine.