The 2022 Defense Department sexual assault report shows relatively steady reporting, but a drop in criminal charges. (Army) Cases of reported sexual assault in the military keep rising, but you wouldn’t think so if you look at how many suspected perpetrators actually end...
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 ...
The program hopes to make it more comfortable for victims of sexual assaults to report the crime. Secretary of the Army Peter Geren said that the sexual assaults within the ranks is ...
Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old U.S. Army specialist, died last year after telling her mother she was sexually harassed by a sergeant. She didn't report the incident to the authorities, saying "they won't believe me," her mother recalled. What was keeping Guillen from report...
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 of pandemic restrictions and public venues reopened, The Associated Press has learned. ...
Army officials confirmed Tuesday that more charges have been added in a rapidly widening military sexual assault investigation, with sources familiar with the case telling CBS News that at least 39 alleged victims, including former patients of a military doctor, have now accused the physician of im...
Army leaders — who saw an increase of nearly 26% in reported assaults last year — said they realized last summer that the numbers were trending badly. Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston said the service had been spending most of its energy on responding to assaults, rathe...
The number of female service members reporting sexual assault went up 13 percent, the Pentagon said. The number of men reporting remained flat. The number of reports from the Marines increased 14.7 percent, the Navy 9.3 percent, the Air Force 9.2 percent, and the Army 8.4 percent, the survey...
The report, provided by the Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), detailed the number of sexual assault reports across the services and joint bases, as well in combat zones. The Army, the largest of the U.S. military services, had the highest number...
O'Donnell noted thather reportingover the years on sexual assault and harassment in the military has shown that it's a national security issue — "we need more women in the U.S. military," she told Wormuth. "We will be stronger as an Army if we have more female leaders," Wormuth sai...