European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Page 3 army medic gets 99 years in jail for killing woman Lesesne by Nancy Montgomery stars and stripes Germany a Heidelberg Hospital medic was sentenced tuesday to no More than 99 years in prison for the murder of his teenage whose Throat he Slit in her Barracks room in Mario Lesesne also was sentenced to a dishonourable discharge and reduced in rank for the pre meditated murder of Valerie shortly after his anguished parents had asked the Mil itary judge for Hes my Only said Reginald who attended their sons today court martial after arriving from North he was a Good he was so Lesesne a a retired told James i just dont under stand what went wrong i beg i ask you to please have mercy on my but who had asked for the maximum sentence of life without reminded Pohl of the terrible pain that Valerie Gam Boas who also testified will always suffer from her brutal the first in her family to graduate from High and assigned to the 1st personnel command in was stabbed More than 20 times Early on prosecutors argued she was killed because she was break ing up with the controlling  never see her get mar ried or have Ingolf Maurstad said of Gambos family in his closing  Al ways ask Why did this selfish Man do this and theres no answer and theres no reason and theres no took the witness stand before saying he apologized greatly for the pain hed but that this never was an Issue of control or jealous he also mentioned in his Short remarks that Gamboa had been on when Pohl asked Lesesne Why he had killed Gam Lesesne said that he didst Lesesne said hed tried to kill Jamie Gam Boas because he wanted no Lesesne had reached a plea agreement with v the con vening before he pleaded guilty to Gambos Mur the attempted murder of Kaskowitz and the assault of her Larry in Exchange for the nomorethan99years his defense hoped that the trial judge might give a super ced ing but at the prosecutors convinced Pohl that the Mur Der had been that required Pohl to give a minimum sentence of life with the possibility of and he so the plea agreement in practical the two sentences Are and because there a parole Board will have final say in How Long Lesesne will be Many tears were shed in tues Days Kaskowitz previous at Lesesne article 32 hearing and on had been mat Tero fact and dry eyed even As she described hearing Gamboa seeing Lesesne standing Over her after she what the expletive Are you doing watched him Slit Gam Boas Throat with a Steak too angry to she later Kaskowitz had remained cooly contained even As she described Lesesne leaping Over to her and stabbing and when she de scribed How Thomas ran hit wrestled the knife out of his hand and saved her Kaskowitz and Thomas Are engaged to be married Shes three months and when she was asked on tuesday about the effect of Lesesne crimes on her she began to email Nancy Montgomery at  corrections a june 12 Story about new armoured vehicles should have attributed to Joseph a Pelato paragraphs of a letter writ ten to defense Secretary Robert 1a june 11 Story about a Soldier killed in a motorcycle crash near Heidelberg should have said William mattock was killed june an army press release stated the incorrect Date of the v a june 10 Story about Schweinfurt soldiers killed in Iraq should have said Bacilio James Lundin and Joshua All of the 1st 18th infantry Ben and stripes Shawn from the 581st signal exercises his wrist with a game of laser hockey played on the Nintendo Wii As army staff Jason an occupational therapy watches at Lan Stuhl regional medical Center in Wii is being used As therapy tool for wounded troops at Lan Stuhl Pany in volunteered to use the game As part of his therapy he broke his wrist and Elbow and partially Tore his rotator cuff when the vehicle he was in rolled he  move his wrist for More than a month because of the implanted he started using the game about a month he plays games tailored to his for exam by Scott Schonauer stars and stripes Germany army Shawn Roberts must play video its doctors every week he goes to Lan Stuhl regional medi Cal Center and plays games on the Nintendo Wii to help him recover from injuries sustained in a Lehi played tenii7 Cle Accident in Kuwait last valves usog his wrist and Elbow the army Hospital is experimenting using the do All the same Roberts but popular video game console As a physical therapy with the your minds off of and you do it a Tod for wounded playing the it its More fast paced and that kind of staff Bryan Valle an occupational therapy said the game  replace anything in the depart ments physical therapy repertoire but could enhance treatment for some its a fun alter native to doing these Vallerie therapists see the game benefiting patients with nearly any kind of including patients with traumatic brain the department plans to Analyse the results of using the game and would like to Purchase its own game if physical therapy can take months of Mono to using the video game is More interest ing than putting together puzzles or gripping a rub Ber staff Jason the noncommissioned of the department didst have the Money to finer in charge of the occupational therapy de buy the but a Navy Hospital corpsman said the overwhelming majority of their played to the Hospital loaned them his game be patients Active duty soldiers Are Young and cause he was attending school and he figured it play video it Only makes sense to inc Orpo would distract him from his rate them into physical he who is assigned to the 581st signal com email Scott Schonauer at  game makes the often painful and Boring therapy session Roberts the alternative is squeezing a Ball of i want expecting much out of said Rob erts after using the you its a video How much could it really do but you dont no Tice it while youre doing it because your minds on the but then when youre done i was military occupational therapists came up with the idea of using the video game before the system debuted on store shelves last unlike other Home video game sys Wii pronounced uses motion sensing the fact that players have to move the controller in different directions to play the game is Why therapists saw some Benefit of introducing it to a want expecting much out of you its a video How much could it really do but you dont notice it while youre doing it because your minds on the but then when youre done i was Ujj army Shawn Roberts