Sivits Gets a Year
Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits received the maximum penalty Wednesday ? one year in prison, reduction in rank and a bad conduct discharge ? in the first court-martial stemming from mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Sivits, who pleaded guilty to four abuse charges, broke down in tears as he expressed remorse for taking pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated.
"I'd like to apologize to the Iraqi people and those detainees," he said in his statement. "I should have protected those detainees, not taken the photos."
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