LOS ANGELES -- A California Army National Guard sergeant has been sentenced to a year in military prison for abusing detainees in Iraq, authorities said Friday.
Sgt. David Fimon, 26, pleaded guilty to multiple charges Monday during a court-martial in Baghdad. The hearing stemmed from allegations that 12 soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the 184th Infantry Regiment abused prisoners, said Lt. Col. Robert Whetstone, a Task Force Baghdad spokesman.
Fimon, of San Diego County's Poway area, will also lose a year's salary, be demoted to private and was given a bad-conduct discharge, meaning he will not be entitled to many veteran's benefits. He will serve his sentence in the United States, Whetstone said.
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