By David Francis and Sabine Muscat
The Defense Department finds those who retaliate against soldiers reporting assaults have not been punished. The long-awaited sexual assault report shows the number of cases of unwanted sexual contact decreased by 25 percent from 26,000 in 2012 to 19,000 cases in 2014. The total number of cases actually reported to authorities went up 8 percent from 2013 to 2014. But the report also found that 62 percent of soldiers who reported cases faced social retaliation from co-workers and peers, and the Pentagon has done nothing to punish those retaliators.
FP’s Gopal Ratnam: “The report raises new …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
