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Marine who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl
AOL ^ | May 23, 2025 | Erin Keller

Posted on 05/24/2025 1:28:48 AM PDT by Trump20162020

A decorated Pittsburgh-area Marine, who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan, was arrested on Wednesday for raping a 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions, police said.

Brandon Rumbaugh, 34, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, is a motivational speaker known for his charity work. He was previously recognized by the Marines with a Commendation Medal for valor. He was wounded in combat after stepping on an IED.

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TOPICS: Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: pennsylvania
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1 posted on 05/24/2025 1:28:48 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

He’s done. He doesn’t have a leg to stand on.


2 posted on 05/24/2025 1:54:53 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
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To: Trump20162020

Statutory rape evidently.


3 posted on 05/24/2025 2:00:05 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Jonty30

He did not lose all his legs it seems. And some things you just can’t run away from.


4 posted on 05/24/2025 2:01:56 AM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Aaron0617

Another case of parents allowing a their child to hang in a grown man’s home to watch movies or play video games. All alone with him.


5 posted on 05/24/2025 2:09:30 AM PDT by Aaron0617
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To: Trump20162020

He’s no Lt Dan, that’s for sure.


6 posted on 05/24/2025 2:20:01 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Chickensoup; Aaron0617

Statutory rape evidently.


Insightful concise posts by both of you. Life is complex.
I imagine that at least one of you bothered to read the article. Thanks. (I haven’t)

In Islam, there is a presumption that if a male and female are alone together for sufficient time which is defined (IIRC between 20 minutes and an hour) sex has occurred, and in Islam the sense that sex makes a marriage is much stronger than it has been in the west for centuries.

Islam is neither entirely wrong on these points, nor entirely correct (especially on the last one).

In the words of Pope Francis “Who am I to judge?”

Thankfully, Pope Leo looks to be the sort of person who is likely to read fully and then express himself concisely, and so may recall the answer to Pope Francis’ question anticipated by Monte Python “I’m the Bloody Pope I am”.


7 posted on 05/24/2025 2:56:52 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: Hieronymus

Having now read the article, given the culture in which it occurred, I would sentence him to 5-15 years at least if there was a threesome, and sentence the person involved in the threesome to the same.

In another culture, allowing the girl’s kin making him a triple amputee might be appropriate.

The alcohol, with hints of date-rate drugs, makes it something beyond statutory rape and threesomes are unnatural.

That he said to keep things under wraps until 18 points to his intentions being perhaps not entirely dishonorable, but mostly dishonorable at best.


8 posted on 05/24/2025 3:04:45 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Lt Dan found a supportive woman. That helps. Man is not meant to be alone.


9 posted on 05/24/2025 3:05:58 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: Trump20162020

umm, how’d this happen? you can pretty much out run some one without legs.
Another dumb family who lets their kid hang out with adults, and another pervo who has to ply a child with alcohol to get laid.


10 posted on 05/24/2025 3:54:53 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: Aaron0617

Apparently, he was a friend of the family. But that doesn’t excuse them. Even if it turns out that this man is innocent of the charges, I still say that the parents were negligent.


11 posted on 05/24/2025 4:03:20 AM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: Trump20162020

This case is gonna take his right out from under him. Disgusting and disgraceful. He lost what ever amount of honor gained by working with the VetOrg who employed him.

I’ll wager a paycheck he was also addicted to pornography… the devil’s gateway to the minds of men.


12 posted on 05/24/2025 5:10:58 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Trump20162020

I guess if Kenny Rogers was around he would have to write a new song. Ruby please take your love to town.


13 posted on 05/24/2025 5:24:37 AM PDT by pterional
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To: Trump20162020

I’ve met members of the military vets etc. who in the end need a radical overhaul.

Pray for them and share experience, strength and hope repentance from sin God as you know God and experience God.

Before they end up like this.


14 posted on 05/24/2025 5:26:07 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: Aaron0617

Another case of parents allowing a their child to hang in a grown man’s home to watch movies or play video games. All alone with him.


I’m a JROTC Instructor. I’ve had parents, particularly mothers, tell me they are perfectly having their teens alone with me. I appreciate their trust, but I make it clear I won’t be alone with a kid, not even in a vehicle.

I won’t put myself in a situation where there’s even the slightest opening for an accusation.


15 posted on 05/24/2025 5:38:31 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Hieronymus

“threesomes are unnatural.”

I don’t know about that. I do know that properly done they’re a heck of a lot of fun.

L


16 posted on 05/24/2025 5:47:14 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Trump20162020

When my neighbor’s father was young, he lost both of his arms at the shoulders in a work related industrial accident. As he aged, his mobility became an issue and at ninety he went to a nursing home. My neighbor got a call from the facility that her dad was under investigation for rape. A worker came into his room and an elderly woman was on top of him, in his bed performing a “sex act”. The woman’s family was informed, saying their mother was FORCED and contacted the police. Charges were dropped against my friends dad but the nursing home made him leave.


17 posted on 05/24/2025 5:48:00 AM PDT by Toespi
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18 posted on 05/24/2025 5:50:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Trump20162020

10? 12? 13? Kill him.


19 posted on 05/24/2025 6:06:27 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Aaron0617

Right! Granted, he is an adult and should have known better, but the parents should not have let her hang out alone with an adult male!


20 posted on 05/24/2025 6:10:36 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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