An Afghan refugee allegedly committed an unlawful act with a child while being housed at a U.S. military base awaiting resettlement.
The incident occurred at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia last year after the Taliban rose to power in August in Afghanistan. Thousands of Afghan refugees were housed at the base after fleeing from the Taliban, and the last of them were resettled by Christmas, according to Military.com.
Quantico was one of eight military bases in the United States that housed Afghan evacuees after U.S. and coalition forces evacuated more than 120,000 people from Afghanistan in August during the final days of the 20-year U.S. conflict there.https://t.co/tVwi9ey2Uo
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Citing an Inspector General report, Military.com reported that there was one “major criminal security incident” at Quantico involving the refugees. It occurred when one evacuee committed “what appeared to be an unlawful act with a child.”
