Friday, December 01, 2006

2 US soldiers accused of sexual assault of a child

Dallas News

Two soldiers have been indicted on separate sexual assault charges after being accused of having sex with a San Angelo girl they met on the social networking Web site MySpace.com.

Ephrem Christopher Jones, 18, a Fort Hood soldier now in Iraq, told investigators he met the 14-year-old girl twice, according to a report that appeared in Saturday editions of the San Angelo Standard-Times.

Jones told police he had sex with the girl in a car during June and engaged in a sex act with her at a motel during August. Floyd Karl Parker, 33, a drill sergeant at Fort Sill, Okla., is accused of having sex with the same girl at the same hotel in September.

Jones told authorities the girl said she was 20 years old, but later said she was 16. Under state law, people younger than 17 are not capable of consenting to sex with an adult.

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