Story highlights A Green Beret who confronted an Afghan police official will stay in Army service

Martland and another officer beat a local police official who they concluded had been raping a small boy

Washington (CNN) The U.S. Army has reversed a decision to discharge a Green Beret for kicking and body slamming an Afghan police commander accused of sexually assaulting a boy.

The Army said in a statement Thursday night that Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland's status has changed, which allows him to continue Army service. The statement did not provide further details.

The decision was first reported by Fox News.

Martland and former Capt. Daniel Quinn were disciplined by the Army after they beat a powerful local police official who they concluded had been raping a small boy in northern Afghanistan in 2011. They say they had been encouraged by higher-ups that there was nothing to do about such horrific acts, that these were Afghan problems for the Afghan authorities to work out.

But the Afghan authorities wouldn't do anything about it, the two soldiers say.

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