Posted on 09/12/2013 3:50:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The number of sexual assaults reported to the US Navy rose dramatically over the last year, officials have said.
The Navy puts the rise down to sailors' growing comfort reporting incidents of sexual assault and to their belief that authorities will take action.
The Navy says about 1,100 assaults were reported in the year ending this month, an increase of 50% from 726 last year.
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One idiot said that this a good thing because allowing gays to be open is means more people fee free to report sexual assaults.
I bring up your point to the sexual assault officials every chance I get. They claim the assaults were the same as before. Based on their reasoning every single women in the military was sexually assaulted and most didn’t bother reporting it.
I call BS because in my experience some women will file a complaint against you for stupid stuff so I can’t see them just ignoring an assault.
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