Prosecution portrays abuse soldier as out of control

LYNNDIE ENGLAND was often sloppy at her paperwork job at Abu Ghraib prison because of illicit, late-night visits to the part of the facility where detainees were abused, her supervisor said yesterday.

The testimony by Specialist Matthew Bolinger at a pre-trial hearing continued the government’s theme of portraying Private England as one of a handful of out-of-control US Army reservists who took it upon themselves to photograph detainees in humiliating poses at the prison near Baghdad. Bolinger said England was repeatedly disciplined for sneaking into the prison’s fortified “hard site” to visit her boyfriend, Specialist Charles Graner, who is also charged in the case and is the father of the child England is carrying.

“Her performance was not so good,” Bolinger said. “She was sneaking out in the middle of the night, going to the hard site.”