Sexual Harassment Allegation Against Bowe Bergdahl Unfounded: Officials

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who's charged with desertion after he left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive by the Taliban for five years, has not been accused of sexual harassment, according to Army officials seeking to tamp down "false reports." Officials told NBC news that while a female specialist at Fort Same Houston in Texas made an unofficial complaint in February that Bergdahl had harassed and stalked her, she didn't specifically say he sexually harassed her. After an informal inquiry found that the allegations weren't true, the female soldier did not file a formal complaint because she had accepted the informal findings, officials said. The woman also accused Bergdahl of "unwanted contact and stalking, including leaving origami at her barracks door and showing up at her door in a gorilla suit and hanging around her while she was on staff duty." Bergdahl is schedule to appear for a hearing based on charges that he deserted his post in Afghanistan in June 2009.

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