Those numbers of prosecutions have continued to fall even as lawmakers and rights advocates pushed to take the power of prosecution out of the hands of individual military commanders, and hand it to anindependent sexual assault prosecutor’s office. “That change was largely ...
Military studies Sexual assault in the military| Ethical dilemma or national security issue? GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Gregory C. Havrilak DiehlRobyn AWomen have fought for equality in society and despite making great strides there is still a level of inequality within specific areas of the United ...
The idea of preventing a sexual assault before it happens isn’t new. The military services have been casting about for ways to do it for years and appear to have made little progress. But this year, officials said they are bolstered by an infusion of $479 million to hire as m...
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, ...
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. ...
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 military justice system is still dysfunctional, the problem of sexual assault is still pervasive and survivors still don't believe they will get justice," said Gillibrand, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services personnel subcommittee. ...
that sexual assault is prevalent yet inadequately addressed at the nation’s oldest state-supported military college. A survey found that 14% of female cadets reported being sexually assaulted, while 63% said that a fellow cadet had told them that he or she was a victim of...
to determine if — or how much — the pandemic played a role in the higher reporting and survey numbers.The Pentagon and the military services have long struggled to come up with programs to prevent sexual assaults and to encourage reporting. While the military has made inroads in making it...
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. ...