Military rape victims: Stop blaming us

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/13/us/military-sexual-assault/?hpt=hp_t2



BriGette McCoy, former specialist in the U.S. Army, testifies Wednesday in Washington

Military rape victims: Stop blaming us
By Josh Levs and Ashley Fantz, CNN
updated 7:16 AM EDT, Thu March 14, 2013

(CNN) -- BriGette McCoy described how she was raped on her first military assignment, two weeks before her 19th birthday. She described how, later that year, she was raped by another soldier in her unit.

Then came sexual harassment by two officers -- including one who requested that she be moved to work directly for him, she said Wednesday.

Testifying before lawmakers, the former Army specialist described the "anguish" and "entrapment" she felt, and the horror of the ordeal that followed.

"I no longer have any faith or hope that the military chain of command will consistently prosecute, convict, sentence and carry out the sentencing of sexual predators in uniform without absconding justice somehow," she told the Senate Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on personnel.



unhappycamper comment: We're talking about 19,000 military sexual assaults per year.