Two demonstrators plead guilty in Fort Benning protest

COLUMBUS - Two people charged with trespassing at Fort Benning last fall to protest a school for Latin American soldiers have pleaded guilty to destroying government property. <br> <br> Twenty-year-old Charity Ryerson and 21-year-old Jeremy John -- both of Bloomington, Indiana, were among 83 protesters arrested during a November 17 demonstration to commemorate the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador. Some graduates of the Army&#39;s former School of the Americas have been linked to the deaths. <br> <br> Seventy-eight protestors will appear before a U.S. Magistrate later this month on trespassing charges. Three others pleaded guilty earlier to trespassing. <br> <br> Trespassing charges were dropped against Ryerson and John. But each faces a maximum sentence of up to 12 months in prison and fines of up to $100,000 for cutting a padlock on a gate. <br> <br> No date has been set for sentencing.