{"id":51744,"date":"2015-09-23T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_soldiers_told_to_ignore_sexual_abuse_of_boys_by_afghan_allies\/"},"modified":"2015-09-23T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T01:25:00","slug":"u-s-_soldiers_told_to_ignore_sexual_abuse_of_boys_by_afghan_allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51744","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Readers are cautioned about the difficult content in this&#8211;KSH<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt night we can hear them screaming, but we\u2019re not allowed to do anything about it,\u201d\u009d the Marine\u2019s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. \u201cMy son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it\u2019s their culture.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/21\/world\/asia\/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Readers are cautioned about the difficult content in this&#8211;KSH. In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51744\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,503,209,175,201,143,168,144,151,112,110,34,124,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-violence","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}