Another article on Joshua Fry

It gets worse... though the first article was vague on this point, this one makes it clear. The recruiter knew Joshua was autistic.

"In his court brief, Studenka said Gunnery Sgt. Matthew M. Teson is partly to blame because he enlisted Fry despite having heard about the young man's troubled past. Studenka accused Teson of being “deliberately ignorant of Fry's disqualifying condition and background.”

The Marine Corps didn't make Teson available for comment.

According to Studenka's brief, Teson met Fry around 2006 while Fry was attending Newport Harbor High School. That was before Fry's alleged theft, possession of stolen property and other behavioral problems led to his 15-month stint at the Devereux Cleo Wallace facility in Denver.

The center, where Fry graduated from high school, treats psychiatric, emotional and behavioral problems in people ages 8 to 21.

At one point, Studenka wrote, Teson called the Fry home in Orange County because he didn't know that Fry had been transferred to Devereux. Studenka said Mary Beth Fry answered the phone and told Teson that her grandson is autistic and not capable of becoming a Marine."

Joshua Fry is in the brig. He shouldn't be - he should be released from the military and returned to community based treatment. Matthew Teson should be locked up for perpetuating fraud upon the United States Government.