WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army postponed the discharge of a Green Beret soldier accused of beating an Afghan police official who had been sexually abusing a boy.
Sgt. First Class Chris Martland, 33, was scheduled to be dismissed from the Army on Nov. 1, for his part in the beating of an Afghan police official in 2011. The Afghan man, who was on the U.S. military's payroll, admitted to keeping a boy tied to his bed for use as a sex slave.