DATE: Saturday, March 1, 1997               TAG: 9703010354

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A8   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: FRANKFURT, GERMANY                LENGTH:   30 lines

3 MORE U.S. SOLDIERS FACING SEX CHARGES

Two U.S. Army sergeants were charged Friday with multiple counts of raping female soldiers at the Darmstadt military training center. A third sergeant was charged with lesser crimes in the most serious sex-abuse scandal at a U.S. military installation in Germany in years.

Twenty-one women have alleged they were sexually attacked or harassed at Darmstadt, where newly assigned personnel are taught about life in Germany.

Sgt. 1st Class Julius Davis faces 36 charges - six each of rape and indecent assault, one each of attempted rape and forcible sodomy, and 11 each of cruelty and mistreatment of a subordinate through sexual harassment, the Army's 5th Corps in Heidelberg said.

Sgt. Paul Fuller was charged with three counts each of rape and forcible sodomy, one each of attempted rape and kidnapping, and seven of cruelty and mistreatment of a subordinate through sexual harassment, the Army statement said.

The third man, Staff Sgt. Robert Robinson, was charged with mistreatment of a subordinate and fraternization, and is not in custody.

The Army withheld the hometowns of all three men, who were instructors at the Darmstadt school. KEYWORDS: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT SEX SCANDAL ARMY SEXUAL

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