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Ivan Frederick

Ivan Frederick (born 1966) was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army from the US 372nd Military Police Company. Frederick was one of the men responsible for the torture of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib in 2004, and he spent four years in prison after being dishonorably discharged and demoted.

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Ivan Frederick was born in 1966 in Buckingham County, Virginia, America. He worked as a corrections officer at the Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Virginia before enlisting in the US 372nd Military Police Company in the US Army as a military policeman. Frederick was deployed to Iraq, and he was one of the MPs sent to the Abu Ghraib prison complex to guard and torture Iraqi detainees. He was pictured sitting on a detainee in one picture, showing the abuse that the prisoners went through. In 2004, he pled guilty to conspiracy, dereliction of duty, maltreatment of detainees, assault, and indecent acts and was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to eight years in prison. However, he was paroled after serving four years, although he was still demoted to Private.

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