Marine NCO set to be tried in homicide case

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Marine NCO set to be tried in homicide case
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Monday, September 15, 2008

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A court-martial is scheduled to begin Monday for a Marine sergeant accused of killing his 6-year-old daughter in October.

Sgt. Bassa Cisse, 34, is assigned to Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.

During a preliminary hearing in December, the prosecution contended Cisse grew so frustrated with his daughter’s behavior Oct. 21 that he struck her several times with his hands, shoved her and then stomped on her back in the family’s Camp Foster tower apartment.

A doctor who performed her autopsy declared Naffy Cisse’s death a homicide. During the December hearing, the doctor testified that the girl had a fractured skull and significant bleeding and swelling of her brain.

Other wounds included several liver lacerations, a ruptured bladder and internal bleeding, the doctor said. She died in the U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa on Camp Lester on Oct. 22, never regaining consciousness.


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