Ex-wife tells of bizarre life with Abu Ghraib abuser

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http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/N05518494.htm

By Adam Tanner

FORT HOOD, Texas, May 5 (Reuters) - One night, Staci Morris awoke to find then husband Charles Graner holding a large knife to her throat and openly pondering whether to kill her. In subsequent days, he pretended nothing had happened.

"He's like my Hannibal Lecter, he really is. He's the monster in my life," said Morris, who has two teenage children from her 10-year marriage with Graner, the central figure in the Abu Ghraib abuse of Iraqi prisoners.



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After a military court sentenced their father to 10 out of a maximum 15-year sentence, the children remained bitter. "They thought he didn't get enough time," Morris said.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. yikes!

[bumblebee1]

2. You know you're a bad father when......

Your kids think you should get more time in prison than the court sentenced you to.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Really

How horrible. :(

[deadparrot]

4. Wow...

I have to wonder, does the military care at all about the mental health of their recruits? It's doing a dangerous disservice to soldiers, their families, and their communities.

[walldude]

5. Damn.. that guy is a sick puppy

His kids are right he should have got more time..

"Morris, 34, a nurse who has remarried and lives outside Pittsburgh, said the former U.S. prison guard now serving a 10-year sentence would proudly e-mail his children photos showing tough treatment of Iraqi prisoners.

He would send photos of "these beat up prisoners and blood and talk about how cool it was - look what daddy gets to do," she said, adding that she did not show them the correspondence"

Then he has a kid with England, and recently marries another woman he had an affair with in Iraq. Should have his own radio talk show any day now....