I have been unable to find anything current about this situation. I stumbled onto the site that I linked to in my opening post while looking around in another site that isn't connected to her case in any significant way, and when I saw it, I looked for dates on the update and action pages. I didn't see any, so I figured they were current. I don't really have any idea what she and her family are trying to do at this time. The petition that I posted appears to be from a year ago.

However, I think this page ought to give a pretty good idea what they were trying accomplish back then...

http://suzanneswift.org/suzanne_arrest.html

I don't think her going AWOL was civil disobedience, Spaw. From what her mother has said, she already had PTSD from her experiences in Iraq, both as someone who experienced combat, as well as someone who was sexually abused; not by the 'enemy', but by the very people who were responsible for her life. The people who gave her her orders.

I don't imagine, as a man, you can fully appreciate what that would be like, but I think you can imagine what you would be feeling if you had a daughter or a wife who was in such a situation.

She was unable to force herself to put herself back in that kind of life and death situation at the mercy of the kinds of people who would do such horrendous things to her with impunity, and she experienced a break down. I consider this a perfectly understandable and even reasonable response to such a situation.

Those who were responsible for her failed her, in some cases, criminally. They are the ones who were really AWOL - from their responsibilities. They are the ones who should be facing consequences, not Suzanne. Some people have argued (not in this thread) that allowing people like Suzanne to get away with what she did would result in a breakdown of discipline. That isn't true. The breakdown of discipline happens when there are commanding officers who are sexually abusing the soldiers in their charge, especially if they are allowed to get away with it.