Lynndie England

Born in Ashland, Kentucky, England moved with her family to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, when she was two years old. She was raised by her mother, Terrie Bowling England, and her father Kenneth R. England Jr., a railroad worker who worked at a station in Cumberland, Maryland. She aspired to be a storm chaser. England joined the United States Army Reserve in Cumberland in 1999 while she was a junior at Frankfort High School near Short Gap. England worked as a cashier in an IGA store during her junior year of high school and married a co-worker in 2002, but they later divorced. She was deployed to Iraq in June 2003. England was engaged to fellow convicted war criminal and Abu Ghraib prison guard Charles Graner. In 2004, she gave birth to a son fathered by him at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg. ==Involvement in prisoner abuse==

England mobilized with her Army Reserve unit and was stationed in Baghdad at Abu Ghraib prison in March 2003 to perform guard duties. Along with other soldiers, she was investigated in late 2003 for mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners of war involving the infliction of sexual, physical and psychological abuse after photographs came to light showing prisoners being abused. While formal charges were being prepared for general court-martial, England was transferred to the U.S. military installation at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on March 18, 2004, because of her pregnancy. Her court-martial was scheduled for September 2005 on charges of conspiracy to maltreat prisoners and assault consummated by battery. She was paroled on March 1, 2007, after serving 521 days, or just over 17 months. ==Later life==

After serving her sentence, England returned to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, and stayed with friends and family. In July 2009, England released Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs that Shocked the World, a biography that was set with a book tour that she hoped would rehabilitate her public image. In March 2008, England told the German magazine Stern that the media was to blame for the consequences of the Abu Ghraib scandal. In a January 16, 2009 interview with The Guardian, England noted being pressured by Graner to pose for the prison photos. In 2012, following her release, she stated that she did not regret her actions. ==Gallery==

File:Abu-ghraib-leash.jpg|England forcing an inmate, known to the guards as "Gus", to crawl and bark like a dog on a leash. File:Abu Ghraib 53.jpg|Detainees were placed into a human pyramid. England and Graner posed for the picture. File:AG-10.jpg|England poses in front of a detainee being forced to masturbate. File:Lynndie England handcuffs.jpg|England after she was sentenced to three years for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. File:MiramarBrig.JPEG|Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar, where England was imprisoned. ==See also==