“But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did - that was something village elders voiced to me.” “The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave.
The policy of instructing soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan allies is coming under new scrutiny, particularly as it emerges that service members like Captain Quinn have faced discipline, even career ruin, for disobeying it.Īfter the beating, the Army relieved Captain Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan. He has since left the military.įour years later, the Army is also trying to forcibly retire Sgt.