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Thursday, March 01, 2007

From The Semi-Invisible News File:

Modified Image of Eglin Regional Hospital, Taylor and a male model

A highly interesting sort of sexual prequel (in that a case has been tried and a man convicted) to the current screaming headlines about shoddy care of wounded military and veterans has taken place near Eglin Air Force Base in warm, steamy Florida.
The convicted man, Devery L. Taylor, is a 38-year-old Air Force captain and former chief of patient administration at Eglin Regional Hospital.
According to Forbes.com:

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

Captain Taylor, according to the International Herald Tribune, was convicted Tuesday and sentenced yesterday "to 50 years in prison for two counts of attempted sodomy, four counts of forcible sodomy, two counts of kidnapping and one count of unlawful entry":

Taylor's court-martial jury found him guilty of all charges against him for drugging and kidnapping servicemen and others he met in bars...Each of the six men testified during the nine-day court-martial and said they drank with Taylor at bars, later felt drugged and were assaulted by him. Two of the men are Air Force officers… Sheriff's deputies in August charged another man with helping Taylor rape one of the six victims on March 23.

It sounds as though Capt. Taylor had a rather busy social schedule...one that may have detracted from official duties as chief of patient administration with the 96th Medical Group which, according to an on line brochure at United-Publishers.com:

Provides comprehensive medical care to approximately 83,000 eligible beneficiaries (active-duty military members, retirees, and their families)… The 96th Medical Group provides a wide variety of outpatient services and presently supports one of the larger outpatient workloads in the Air Force.

Facts in the reporting of this case, per my morning Googling, are scattered hither and yon across a swath of media…Typical when the accumulated facts could form an even nastier picture.

Modified Image: Google, InternationalMale.com, Queerty.com, United-Publishers.com
- posted by Sean @ 11:54 AM

Comments:

At the known risk of terrifying you further, I'd just like to say I am wanting a pic of the offender. I collect pix of rapist military officers!

# posted by

gregory_lyons : 8:07 PM

Gregory, His picture is in the artwork above my post...The Captain/rapist is the guy with the 50s gay porn thought balloon coming out of his head. I do principled/source-based photoshopping. ;-)
Anyway, the original pic (not much different from my cutout) I discovered on Queerty.com (image sources always identified at the bottom of every post).
The guy was a raping devil, wasn't he? I've wondered if his club drug of choice for Mickey Finns had a medical use and was taken from the Eglin hospital?
You don't terrify me on AmericaBlog, Gregory...On occasion you have been very nice and interesting. On other occasions, with some of my comments, you've been mean without cause, at least to my mind. And, I've read/observed you being needlessly cruel to those less mentally gifted than yourself while I also find many of your large volume of comments intentionally off point.
So, it's more tiresome than terrifying and antithetical to the bonds of real e-friendship, or so I, with my homespun peasant thoughts, imagine.

# posted by

Sean : 11:48 AM