Rape cases in American Army on the rise

bao_bihari · December 29, 2011, 4:48am

American nation is morally and economically speeding towards a total collapse. Just wait and see how long does this takes.

WASHINGTON — Reported sexual assaults at military academies rose significantly in the last academic year, but defense officials insist that school administrators are handling the issue properly.
During the 2010-2011 school year, there were 65 reports of sexual assaults involving cadets and midshipmen at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Air Force Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy. In the previous school year, only 41 reports were filed.
In fact, the 2010-2011 total number of reported sex crimes is nearly equal to the total of the previous two years combined. But authors of a Defense Department report on the service academies’ assaults called that figure “encouraging, as it is consistent with the Department’s goal to bring more victims forward to report the crime.”
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Earlier this year, defense officials used similar rationale to explain the 11 percent increase in sexual assault reports in the services in fiscal 2010. Service-wide reports of sex crimes have been on the rise since 2008, when the Pentagon updated reporting and confidentiality rules for victims.
In a statement, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that one sexual assault at the academies is too many.
“Whether it’s in our academies or our ranks, at sea or ashore, there’s no place for this unacceptable behavior,” he said. “I’m confident the steps we are taking are the right ones, but we must continue to improve.”
Most of the academy victims were female, but the total includes a few male victims. The report authors noted that the actual number of rapes and assaults is likely much higher than the reported total, because sexual assault remains one of the most underreported crimes in the United States.
The report also says that academy sexual assault reporting policies at the three institutions “fulfilled, and in some cases surpassed the requirements of existing DoD policies and directives,” news they labeled as encouraging steps to combat the problem.
Maj. Gen. Mary Kay Hertog, director of the Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, said in a statement that when these assaults occur, “we owe it to those who have been victimized, and to every cadet and midshipman, to do everything possible to provide needed support and to hold those who commit sexual assault appropriately accountable.”
With the release of the report, defense officials also highlighted two new rules in the recently passed annual defense authorization bill regarding military sexual assaults.
The first requires the department to hold onto sexual assault records for longer than in the past. Restricted reports, where the victim can receive medical treatment and counseling without triggering a criminal investigation, will be kept for five years. Unrestricted reports, where a criminal investigation is launched, will be kept for 50 years.
The second, in the case of an unrestricted report, requires commanders to respond to a sexual assault victim’s request for transfer within 72 hours, and provides for a new appeal process if that request is denied.
The statistics do not include the United States Coast Guard which falls under the Department of Defense. Two monthly support groups are held by the Military Rape Crisis Center near the Coast Guard Academy offering support to survivors of sexual violence at the Coast Guard Academy

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firenze · December 29, 2011, 6:19am

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I am listening the crap of end of American civilization from last 26 years, and hopefully it will continue until my death. but as much i travel across America and other countries i can surely guarantee you United States is not going any where in next 50 years at least. but many countries will gone to junk in the same time frame.

so who wins?

bao_bihari · December 29, 2011, 9:43am

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We know it due to the course they are on. Only ALLAH knows when it will be done, most probably in few years inshallah.

Lets just see what happens

Zhenghe · December 29, 2011, 12:07pm

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http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf

1 in 5 American women are victim of sexual assault, it is no surprise they have problem in rape in the Military The military is reflecting what happening in their society.

They have lost moral authority long time ago to lecture the world when they can’t even respect the woman in their own country.

EDAL · December 29, 2011, 3:02pm

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Well the problem is most Americans do not realize what our government has done to us. The debt situation is really bad guys, there is no hope of paying back the debt, sooner or later they will default. It’s scary.

javedmiandad · December 29, 2011, 4:58pm

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United States faces multiple problems and they have only themselves to blame for these problems.

the crisis in its society where so many women abused is shocking enough.

As for debts i agree United States Inc cannot pay them off almost impossible, but the bigger disaster is not even being mentioned by the media, the derivatives markets has toxic debts to the tune of many tens of trillions of dollars, when that market bursts it will be like seeing the titanic sink to the bottom of atlantic ocean all over again!

As the well known finance expert and multi billionaire warren buffet said “Derivatives are instruments of financial mass destruction”

rommel · January 6, 2012, 9:48pm

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Centcom will be on soon to claim America is not in the business of raping its own soldiers what a clown!