Air Force Officer Guilty of raping 4 men

Air Force officer guilty of raping 4 men
Man could get life in prison after court-martial conviction at Florida base
Feb 27, 2007

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - An Air Force officer was found guilty Tuesday of raping four men and attempting to rape two others.

A nine-member military jury deliberated for about seven hours in Capt. Devery L. Taylor's court-martial. Taylor gave no reaction upon hearing the verdict.

Taylor, the former chief of patient administration at Eglin Regional Hospital, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Sentencing was to begin Wednesday.

"I am pleased. I am emotional, but I am very, very pleased," said Maj. Kathleen Reder, a military prosecutor.

"These men can sit up a little straighter now; I am proud of them," she said of the six victims who testified.

Martin Regan, Taylor's civilian defense attorney, declined to comment before sentencing.

Military prosecutors described Taylor, 38, as a serial rapist who met men in bars, spiked their drinks with the "date-rape" drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, and kidnapped them.

Taylor was charged with two counts of attempted sodomy, four counts of forcible sodomy, two counts of kidnapping and one count of unlawful entry.

Defendant says sex was consensual
Taylor testified that he had consensual sex with five of the men and that the sixth, who is openly gay, raped him. Regan said the men lied to protect their military careers.

Four of the men were in the military when they met Taylor, and a fifth wanted to join the Navy and feared being identified as gay, Regan said.

Regan said Taylor's only crime was being gay in the military and violating the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bans people who are openly gay from serving in the armed forces.

Man. Life has got to suck when you're a guy that gets raped.

I remember a story where a sailor on a ship went to the doctor complaining about rectal pains. The doctor ran some tests and came back to the sailor and said "Honestly, how long have you been a homosexual?" The sailor denied it over and over and kept coming back to the doctor complaining about the same pains. The doctor said that there is obvious evidence of anal sex.

They set up a camera in his compartment, and it turns out that a Marine that he was sharing the compartment with (bunk beds), was using ether or something while the sailor was sleeping to keep him knocked out, and was raping him in his sleep.

Once this was realized, the Marine was arrested, and the sailor was given a honorable discharge.

PS - That sailor was not me....before you guys try to make jokes about my naval discharge (naval discharge also does not pertain to naval lint).

Did anyone else give a very tiny little chuckle at the charge of "unlawful entry"?

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Originally Posted by Midnight Mike

"These men can sit up a little straighter now; I am proud of them," she said of the six victims who testified.

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I'll say. :lol: