Military rape reports rise, prosecution still low

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March 17, 2009, 05:55:20 PM Last Edit: March 25, 2009, 05:34:08 AM by jimmy olsen
Shameful!   :mad:

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QuoteMilitary rape reports rise, prosecution still low

By ANNE GEARAN – 28 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — More people came forward to report sexual assaults in the military last year, but a significant percentage wouldn't give crucial details needed for an investigation.

The Pentagon said it received 2,923 reports of sexual assault across the military in the 12 months ending Sept. 30 2008. That's about a 9 percent increase over the totals reported the year before, but only a fraction of the crimes presumably being committed.

Among the cases reported, only a small number went to military courts, officials acknowledged.

The Pentagon office that collects the data estimates that only 10 percent to 20 percent of sexual assaults among members of the active duty military are reported — a figure similar to estimates of reported cases in the civilian sphere.

The military statistics, required by Congress, cover rape and other assaults across the approximately 1.4 million people in uniform.

Kaye Whitley, director of the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, said most victims are women, most cases involve young people and alcohol is often involved.

The yearly increase in reports is more likely due to larger numbers of victims being willing to come forward than to an overall increase in sexual violence, Whitley said.

That increase includes a jump in cases from combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, to 165 from 131 the year before.

Congresswoman Jane Harman, a congressional critic of the military's handling of sexual violence, said the statistics show the problem is still rampant.

"While the report shows modest improvement, we're far from Mission Accomplished," the California Democrat said in a statement. "Military women are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq."

The latest figures include 2,280 cases in which a victim provided full accounts and physical evidence when possible, and 643 in which a victim sought care or made a report but refused to provide all the information necessary to pursue an investigation.

The Defense Department allows those limited reports on the theory that it encourages victims to at least seek care when they might otherwise keep silent.

Prosecution is slow and large numbers of cases are thrown out or dropped.

The most recent figures, which include cases left open from previous years, show that only 317 cases were referred for courts-martial, or military trials. Another 247 were referred for nonjudicial punishment.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Habbaku

#1
March 17, 2009, 06:01:12 PM
Criminal!
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Habbaku

#2
March 17, 2009, 06:01:23 PM
Absurd!
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Habbaku

#3
March 17, 2009, 06:01:34 PM
Bashful!
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
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jimmy olsen

#4
March 17, 2009, 06:01:44 PM
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Habbaku

#5
March 17, 2009, 06:01:52 PM
Dopey!
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
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Ed Anger

#6
March 17, 2009, 06:07:31 PM
This thread got raped.
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#7
March 17, 2009, 06:12:57 PM
Quote from: Cindy Brady on March 17, 2009, 06:07:31 PM
This thread got raped.
I don't have enough details to prosecute.
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Ed Anger

#8
March 17, 2009, 06:15:02 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 17, 2009, 06:12:57 PM
Quote from: Cindy Brady on March 17, 2009, 06:07:31 PM
This thread got raped.
I don't have enough details to prosecute.

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#9
March 17, 2009, 11:50:12 PM
You know these smilies are terrible when Tim's predictable one-note outrage is transformed into a lecherous leer at the plight of rape victims.   :(
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Phillip V

#10
March 24, 2009, 11:40:28 PM
Shameful? What is the solution?

garbon

#11
March 24, 2009, 11:53:24 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 17, 2009, 06:07:31 PM
This thread got raped.

I bet it just felt mildly uncomfortable after consensual sex and then decided to call it rape.
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#12
March 25, 2009, 06:51:13 AM
Quote from: Phillip V on March 24, 2009, 11:40:28 PM
Shameful? What is the solution?

Drive an Admiral investigating it to suicide.
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Martinus

#13
March 25, 2009, 07:36:52 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 17, 2009, 06:15:02 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 17, 2009, 06:12:57 PM
Quote from: Cindy Brady on March 17, 2009, 06:07:31 PM
This thread got raped.
I don't have enough details to prosecute.

Martinus: This outrage shows the futility of US and Canadian legal systems. If only it was run by militant gays, BLAH BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH BLAH! BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH?
BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH.
If the military was composed of gays, there would be no instances of rapes against military women.

There would be just instances of disciplining junior male cadets.  :cool:

Martinus

#14
March 25, 2009, 07:38:17 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 25, 2009, 06:51:13 AM
Quote from: Phillip V on March 24, 2009, 11:40:28 PM
Shameful? What is the solution?

Drive an Admiral investigating it to suicide.
Rear Admiral?
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