Rape In The Armed Forces: Three Brave Soldiers Share Horror Stories Of A Nation's Shame -- New York Daily News
The Daily News begins a two-part series about a staggering secret inside the U.S. military.
It is the armed forces’ hidden epidemic. And the nation’s shame.
The statistics for military sexual trauma — three words that barely hint at the horror — are both astounding and stomach-turning.
In 2011, there were 3,191 reports of sexual assaults ranging from wrongful touching to rape — but even Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he believes that because it is such an underreported crime, there were actually as many as 19,000 such attacks.
The underreporting reflects how the majority of victims are too fearful to report the abuse, as many of the perpetrators are their superiors.
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