JAG CENTRAL

From the AP (via ABC News), word that Army SPC Sabrina Harman was sentenced today to six months prison. With time served, the total sentence will be 129 days. The maximum possible was five years, and the government asked for three years. Some of the "heartwarming" testimony that helped her get off light:

Earlier in the day, witnesses testified that the former pizza shop manager from Lorton, Va., was kindhearted and helpful while serving in an Iraqi city.

When other U.S. soldiers just wanted to sit in the shade after a long workday, Harman ran around in the hot sun, playing games with Iraqi children, witnesses said.
Much of the defense testimony during sentencing focused on her behavior while at the Iraqi city of Hillah, where the 372nd Military Police Company was based for several months before moving to Abu Ghraib.

Two Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, whose testimony was read into the record, said Harman's gentle treatment was unique among the guards in the part of the prison reserved mostly for detainees believed to have intelligence value.

"She has no cruelty in her," said Amjad Ismail Khalil al-Taie through an interpreter. "Even though she is an American woman, she was just like a sister."

Yeah, so much a sister that she conspired with her fellow soldiers to put naked Iraqi prisoners into a human pyramid and photograph them. Your sister does that to you, doesn't she?