PressTV- US Marine trainer convicted for abusing Muslims

A US Marine drill instructor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for physically and verbally abusing Muslim recruits, including a young man who committed suicide because of the constant hazing.

A military jury issued the sentence on Friday, a day after Gunnery Sergeant Joseph Felix, 33, pleaded guilty to terrorizing three Muslim men at the Marines’ storied boot camp in Parris Island.

Lieutenant Colonel John Norman, the prosecutor, said Felix “picked out Muslim recruits for special abuse because of their Muslim faith. He degraded their religion and put them in industrial appliances.”

“He wasn’t making Marines,” Norman asserted. “He was breaking Marines.”

A married father of four, Felix was handed the sentence after being convicted of three counts of maltreatment, eight counts of violating general orders, drunk and disorderly conduct and making false statements.

Two of the victims told prosecutors that Felix had put them…

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