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Army Pfc. Lynndie England, who posed smiling in infamous photos of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, was convicted this week for abusing Iraqi detainees. England was the last of nine reservists charged in the case. Six made plea deals; two were convicted. England’s lawyer, Capt. Jonathan Crisp, said she has an overly compliant personality and was led astray by her former boyfriend, then-Cpl. Charles Graner, the reputed ringleader. “She just did whatever he wanted her to do,” Crisp said. But the lead prosecutor said England participated willingly, “all for her own sick humor.” In one photo, which became an iconic symbol of the Abu Ghraib abuses, England led a naked Iraqi prisoner around by a leash. She faces up to nine years in prison.
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