On 12 March , five United States Army soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment raped the 15-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi , and then murdered her , her father , her mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen and her six-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi . The soldiers then set fire to the girl 's body to conceal evidence of the crime . Four of the soldiers were convicted of rape and murder and the fifth was convicted of lesser crimes for their involvement in the events , which became known as the Mahmudiyah rape and killings
Mahmudiyah rape and killings
Mahmudiyah rape and killings
Iraq War