Shameful! :mad:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjwUk3pdL0DxNYQVsrQhSWMdwvjgD97023MO0
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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Criminal!
Absurd!
Bashful!
Dopey!
This thread got raped.
Quote from: Cindy Brady on March 17, 2009, 06:07:31 PM
This thread got raped.
I don't have enough details to prosecute.
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.
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. :(
Shameful? What is the solution?
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.
Quote from: Phillip V on March 24, 2009, 11:40:28 PM
Shameful? What is the solution?
Drive an Admiral investigating it to suicide.
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:
Quote from: Martinus on March 25, 2009, 07:36:52 AM
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:
Captain Martinus on the
HMS Feltching:
http://www.corpun.com/kiss.jpg (NSFW..naughty etchings)
http://www.corpun.com/kiss1.htm (NSFW for Marti)
We should form special rapist penal battalions and sentence them to serve in Afghanistan indefinitely. That would take care of any manpower problems.
Quote from: Valmy on March 25, 2009, 09:30:45 AM
We should form special rapist penal battalions and sentence them to serve in Afghanistan indefinitely. That would take care of any manpower problems.
Got a letter in the mail
Go to war or go to jail