Mother of Travis King, soldier charged with desertion, says family plans to 'fight charges hard'
The mother and stepfather of Travis King said that the charges against him do not align with the person they know. The mother of Travis King, a U.S. Army private charge d by the Army with desertion for crossing the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea this summer, said that her family plans "to fight the charges and fight the charges hard." In an exclusive interview with ABC News Tuesday, Claudine Gates and Dan Jovanovic, King's mother and stepfather, said the eight counts leveled against King last week that include desertion, possession of child pornography, assaulting fellow soldiers, and disobeying a superior officer shock them because they do not align with the "peaceful person" they know. "The actions that the Army is saying that he's doing is not Travis. He's not like that. He's a good boy," Gates said. Claudine Gates and Dan Jovanovic are speaking with ABC News' Linsey Davis in an interview airing in full on Wednesday n...