This documentary profiles Lynndie England, the US reservist soldier who appeared in pictures that depict Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison being abused. This program examines how a young woman from a small town in West Virginia came to be involved in the abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Lynndie England was 17 when she joined the US army as a reservist. Despite having had no training in handling prisoners, she was eventually assigned to the administration offices of Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, logging prisoners in and out. She met and started a relationship with Charles Graner, who worked in the maximum security block of Abu Ghraib. It appears that ritual humiliation and abuse of prisoners was being carried out here, and the somewhat gullible England became involved as a result of her association with Graner. She posed for pictures with naked prisoners, which then appeared in the media around the world.
From interviews with Lynndie, her mother and her sister, and with a clinical psychologist, a picture emerges of a naive girl of limited intellect. Lynndie England has now given birth to a son by Charles Graner, who received a ten-year sentence in January 2005.