discussed include the way military treats the victims of sexual assaults that has sparked the U.S Congress efforts to reform laws, views of Express-News reporter Sig Christenson on the support provided by military and the U.S Department of Defense report regarding the cases of sexual assault.Sc...
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 ma...
Sexual assault has long been a problem for the U.S. military. Sexual assault takes many forms, such as rape, forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual contact and abusive sexual contact. According to the U.S. Department of Defense'sofficial reportin the fiscal year 2019, U.S. milita...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reported sexual assaults at U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, The Associated Press has learned. A Pentagon report on reported assaults a...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
9 (Xinhua) -- Sexual assaults reported at the U.S. Military Academy -- also known as West Point -- doubled in the last academic year, according to a report released by the Pentagon on Wednesday. The document from the U.S. Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response...