Ivan Frederick
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Ivan Frederick II (born 1966/67), called Chip Frederick, of Buckingham County, Virginia, is a former Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. He was the highest in rank of the seven U.S. military police personnel who have been charged with torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He was the senior enlisted soldier at the prison from October to December 2003.
Prior to his deployment to Iraq, Frederick was a corrections officer at Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Virginia. His wife, Martha, also works there.
On May 12, Frederick was ordered to undergo a general court-martial for "conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty for negligibly failing to protect detainees from abuse, maltreatment of detainees, and wrongfully committing an indecent act by watching detainees commit a sexual act."
The charges included taking part in the incident in which a prisoner had wires attached to his hands and forced to stand on a box, where he was told that if he stepped off the box he would be electrocuted. Frederick was also charged with forcing nude prisoners into a pyramid, forcing a prisoner to masturbate in front of other prisoners and guards, and forcing a prisoner to place his face into the pubic region of another prisoner, simulating oral sex.
A witness testified that he saw Frederick hit prisoners, and saw him watching prisoners performing a simulated sex act.
Frederick said that he was ordered to commit the offenses by his acting battalion commander. The reference is not clear, but at one time Lt. Col. Ronald Chew replaced a regular 115th Military Police Battalion commander (Lt. Col. Jerry Phillabaum) at that facility.
On October 20, 2004, Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick pled guilty to conspiracy, dereliction of duty, maltreatment of detainees, assault and committing an indecent act in exchange for other charges being dropped. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, forfeiture of pay, a dishonorable discharge and a reduction in rank to private.
| Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse |
| Top officials |
| President George W. Bush | Vice President Dick Cheney | Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld | Alberto Gonzales |
| Civilian contractors |
| Steven Stephanowicz | Joe Ryan |
| Defense Department officials and military officers |
| Deputy Undersecretary of Intelligence Stephen Cambone | Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez | Major General Barbara Fast Major General Geoffrey Miller | Colonel Janis Karpinski | Colonel Thomas Pappas | Lieutenant General William Boykin |
| Enlisted soldiers |
| Sergeant Joseph Darby | Sergeant Javal Davis | Private First Class Lynndie England Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick | Specialist Charles Graner | Specialist Sabrina Harman | Jeremy Sivits |