Posted on 03/28/2015 11:38:33 AM PDT by huldah1776
And yes, once lawyers get involved the wheels suddenly seem to start turning but very slowly.
I've had to deal with both the IRS and the VA. Honestly I would rather deal with the IRS.
She was discharged with PTSD and with 40% disability. This would have been a DOD diagnosis. The VA should have accepted it.
Of course, should and reality are often two different things when it comes to the VA.
If you read what I posted I said the 180 days was changed to 18-24 months. If she didn’t serve the minimum amount of time she gets no benefits.
Also it says she went to a Hospital off post for the diagnose of PTSD. If she did the VA will not accept it. Also she says she should have been given a 40% disability, she should have contested that when she was discharged.
Like I have been saying there are to many things wrong with this story.
But it sounds like she was discharged for PTSD. If she served less then the time she signed up for and it was not a dishonorable discharge it would have been medical.
I agree that there are a lot of things wrong with the story as written. There are bits that are unclear.
The Army showed up today to talk to her parents and they are doing a full investigation. She needs all the help she can get. Thank you, Army investigators, from a Gold Star sister.
The VA might have those records because of the “true story” that “Night of The Living Dead” is based on.
It’s been a little while, but the rapist has been arrested and is being investigated for 3 rapes and 2 murders.
http://www.phillyrecord.com/2015/07/army-admits-rape-victim-served-in-military/
Thanks for the update.
Remains a very, very strange story.
As I’m sure you noticed, the article contains no information from any source other than the supposed victim and her representative. Whereas arrests for rape and murder are, I believe, public record, even in the military. The name of the supposed attacker is not used, nor the two murder victims. Yet I would presume the discovery and arrest of a serial killer/rapist in the military would be pretty big news.
The claim that a rape kit she obtained personally proves she was raped is, I believe, a stretch. I’m not an expert in the field, but I don’t think a rape kit is capable of proving sexual assault, by itself. It may be able to prove that sexual intimacy occurred, but not that the sex was not consensual.
The entire article is still hearsay.
I’ll let you know what happens.
Thanks. I can understand a mistake, even a mistake that she has trouble getting corrected.
But I have a great deal of difficulty envisioning a massive conspiracy of the type implied by the article.
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