Posted on 02/15/2011 2:13:35 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
Sexual abuse reports rising The lawsuit, being filed by civil litigator Susan Burke, is an attempt to shine the spotlight on what Pentagon officials have acknowledged is a serious problem — a steady increase in reports of sexual abuse within the U.S. military. Last year, the Pentagon reported there had been 3,230 complaints of sexual abuse by members of the military services during fiscal year 2009, an 11 percent increase over the year before.
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The lawsuit alleges that the Pentagon has failed to crack down on the sexist culture of the military services or implemented policies that would insure aggressive investigations of those accused and bar retaliation against service members who file complaints.
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The lawsuit specifically names Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, as defendants, charging that both have failed to take aggressive measures to deal with the problem or follow edicts from Congress.
Delays with reporting complaints? It charges, for example, that Rumsfeld in 2004 delayed naming members to a commission mandated by Congress to investigate the military's handling of sexual assault cases and resisted congressional oversight of the issue. It accuses Gates of violating the plaintiffs' constitutional rights by permitting military commanders to use "nonjudicial punishments" for accused rapists — and failing to meet a congressionally mandated deadline for creating a database that would centralize all reports of rapes and sexual assaults.
"Sexual assault is a wider societal problem and Secretary Gates has been working with the service chiefs to make sure the U.S. military is doing all it can to prevent and respond to it," Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, wrote in an email to NBC.
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This happened 30 years ago when I was in the service...
The victims get punished, the rapists get promotions
I wonder how throwing gays into the mix will effect things?
Things will only get worse if gays are allowed to openly serve in the military.
Not a surprise.
The US military actively encourages prostitution where there are military bases around the world for the exploitation of young women and girls.
That is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear someone use the term military and honor in the same sentence.
One reason why the WAC was not a bad idea. The more you mix men and women, the more rough sex you get. You know that during war that rape is the preferred weapon of an advancing army. If it occurs in the most restricted situation possible, the family. IAC. what to do about it. A little better understanding by service women that they cannot trust even their superior officers not to take advantage. Only they. though. know what walls are the strongest protection, and so I think that they should be the ones who set the legal—and practical— boundaries. In a test of strength, they are bound to lose unless they can design a cage to keep the beast inside.
Our President has complicated the military for many patriotic people. Gays will make things worse.
You’re on the wrong website. You’re looking for Obamabootlickers.com
I’m guessing a lot of ‘he said, he said’.
No offense to anyone, but this is why girls and gays should NOT be allowed in the military.
I just thought this was such a classic example of media misleading.
Lead paragraph generates a large scary number by lumping together all cases of "sexual abuse," a generic category that covers a wide range of offenses, some of them pretty mild. Then it uses the term "rapist" as more or less an equivalent term. I suspect the number of reported rapes is a great deal less than 3000.
It is also notable that somehow the obligatory "accused" or "alleged" gets left out when referring to a "rapist."
You are a noob compared to me.
I don’t condone prostitution, so sue me
That is a load of bs - on the contrary, the military and those base's chains of command activly DIScourage that activity.
Men on one base. Women on another base. GLBT on six different bases depending on the day of the week ~ with regular random rotations.
Yup ~
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35729755/South-Korea-U-S-Military-Accused-of-Encouraging-Prostitution
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47556
Massage parlors offering sexual services sometimes distinguish themselves from legitimate parlors by advertising with the word "anma", sometimes quite openly with large neon signs. Following the enactment of the Special Law in 2004, there was a crackdown on red-light districts; while many of the brothels in those areas were forced to close, the crackdown went as quickly as it came, with the result that prostitution was driven more underground but also became a more competitive business with lower prices and more services
Those large neon signs are so hard to find!!
That’s a pretty pathetic response and an obvious lack of knowledge.
The US military does encourage it. Where do they think all the condoms are going? (the commissaries sell out of condoms fast)
"I just kind of panicked, froze. I didn't say anything,"
Again, with all due respect, I have to ask: Are women being trained as warriors or is the military just another jobs program? I can't see how a female warrior would tolerate that. She'd have broken some of his ribs or neck or arm.
From what my active duty daughter tells me most of the sexual assaults are gay on gay.
first link - an unsubstantiated allegation, that if anything it was the SK gov’t pushing things.
Second article - did you bother to read it beyone the title? Military proactively places prostitution sites “off limits” to military personel. Again, it is the SK gov’t failing to enforce their laws and pushing things.
Third article - yes there is prostitution (duh), but no evidence of the US Military advocating the practice as you stated earlier.
Three strikes - your out.
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