Fort Drum Soldier Sentenced In Death of Infant Daughter
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FORT DRUM – A soldier from the Army’s 10th Mountain Division has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the death of his infant daughter, a domestic dispute involving his wife and an assault at Fort Drum.
Sergeant Wesley Clark, an infantryman assigned to the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, also was given a dishonorable discharge and demoted to private at his sentencing Wednesday.
Clark pleaded guilty to two charges of assault and battery, one charge of assault and battery on a child under the age of 16, one charge of committing an act inherently dangerous to another, one charge of communicating a threat, and one charge of drunk and disorderly conduct.
Clark violently shook his 3-month-old daughter Lynsey in Korea in November 2002, causing bleeding in her brain and seizures that required her to be hospitalized for 13 days before she died. He pushed his pregnant wife in 2003 and last September was charged with being drunk and disorderly while assaulting one soldier and threatening another in a barracks at Fort Drum.
