“That change was largely due to the perception that when a military commander makes these makes these prosecution decisions, that they are not expert attorneys in these cases,” Dr. Nate Galbreath, deputy director of DoD’s Sexual Assault and Prevention Office, told reporte...
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Xinhua) -- As many as 6,769 sexual assault cases in the U.S. military were reported in fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, 2017, up about 10 percent from 6,172 reported in the previous year, according to a Pentagon annual report released on Monday. These cases invo...
Using inflammatory language and misleading statistics, some attacked the prosecution and conviction rates in the military services. Other commentators and some members of Congress criticized how the military handles sexual assault cases, contending that the military justice process is less effective at ...
Martha McSally, as a veteran-senator who was the first female Air Force pilot to serve in combat, revealed in a congressional hearing on military sexual assault in 2019 that she was once preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer during her military serving. "Like you, ...
of interest" that exist because of the way the military decides whether to prosecute sexual assault cases. That decision-making power is currently held by a small number of high-ranking officers. Gillibrand's proposal would give that authority instead to seasoned, independent military trial lawyers...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alarmed by a dramatic increase in reported sexual assaults in the military, defense leaders said Thursday they want to beef up prevention, but they are struggling to find people to hire and are still developing programs they think can
that an increase in reported assaults is a positive trend because so many people are reluctant to report it, both in the military and in society as a whole. Greater reporting, they say, shows there is more confidence in the reporting system and greater comfort with the support for victims....
Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out ofpandemicrestrictions and public venues reopened, The Associated Press has learned.Mirroring the increase in those reports is the ...
After years of repeated reports of sexual assaults — and years of promises to prevent them, and then years of studies and commissions to find the best way of doing so — a Defense Departmentstudyreleased Tuesday estimates that some 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the...
The Pentagon delegation included only one female, which perhaps explains why women feel the military just doesn't get it. Military sex cases are "sickening," lawmaker says Fort Hood sex assault prevention coordinator accused of abuse Trial date set for Air Force's sex assault prevention chief ...