Javal Davis
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Javal Davis is a discharged American soldier named in the initial investigation into possible abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as one of the seven soldiers confirmed to be committing such crimes. He and the other guards at the prison, all members of the 372nd Military Police Company, were charged with assaulting and committing sex offences against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib during the Iraq War.
During the investigation, a document known as the Tabuga report named Davis as one of the seven main suspects, along with Ivan Frederick II, Lynndie England, Jeremy Sivits, Charles Graner, Sabrina Harman and Megan Ambuhl. He was indicted on May 12th, 2004.
Davis was accused of conspiring to mistreat detainees, battery, forging official documents and dereliction of his duty to protect detainees from being assaulted. He pleaded guilty, admitting during the trial that he had deliberately stepped on handcuffed prisoners' feet and hands and crushed them with his full body weight. He was sentenced to six months in prison and given a bad conduct discharge. He has since appeared in the documentaries "Standard Operating Procedure" and "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib".