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U.S. soldier Lynndie England, one of seven military police officers implicated in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, was accused yesterday of indecent acts with another soldier and indecent exposure.
The new charges came four days before she’s due to appear at a preliminary court hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Sources said the five modified counts stem from activity seen on numerous digital photographs seized during the abuse probe. An Army official said none of the charges involves "detainees or Iraqi nationals" and instead relate to England’s alleged personal conduct last year while in Iraq.
In dozens of images obtained by The Washington Post, England is captured in various stages of nudity and in explicit sexual poses with a male soldier.
Spc. Charles Graner Jr., 35, who has been charged with abuses and described as a ringleader in the scandal, can be seen in some of the photographs. Lawyers for England, 21, have said she’s six months pregnant with his child.
In some pictures, which appear to depict consensual sexual acts between England and at least one man, she gives a thumbs-up sign, a trademark characteristic of widely published images of abuses at Abu Ghraib, where female soldiers were seen grinning, giving the same hand signal near naked, hooded detainees. Many of the latest photographs appear to be taken in the soldiers’ living quarters.