Media needs to tell the truth .

Media needs to tell the truth .
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OKIE MIKE

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I was the victom of a male on male rape in 1977 . This happened while I was serving in the US. Army at Ft.Hood TX .
When I went to my superiors and tryed to tell what had happened to me. They either did not want to believe me or told me to get over it and get on with my life .
I think that the reason is that they do not want to believe that the military has a problem with Sexual Preditors . A lot of the people that commit thease crimes are high ranking people and they seem to be afraid to file charges against them . because of what may happen to them .
The person that raped me was the personal
NCO or the 553rd Service & Supply Battalion .
All of the paperwork from the battalion went through his office . So any thing that that had to do with records he had control of . You can see why people backed off .
As we all know sexual assault will effect a persons life . they are neaver the same after this happens to them .
I think that some one in the media needs to tell the truth amout sexual perditors in the military and how they operate .
I have ben diagnoised with PTSD by the Veterans Adminstration . and I have the proof that this does happen in the military and they cover it up .
I do not know where to go to try and get the media to look at the evedence of a cover up
 
Interesting thread Mike

And this appeared in the UK press earlier today:

Services contain 28 sex offenders
By Ben Quinn


(Filed: 11/09/2006)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/11/narmy11.xml

Twenty-eight convicted sexual offenders are continuing to serve as members of the Armed Forces, according to Ministry of Defence records.

The bulk are members of the Army, which has 16 soldiers who have been convicted of sexual offences. There are seven in the Royal Navy and five in the Royal Air Force.

None of the military personnel currently on the sex offenders' register was employed in training establishments, the MoD said.

advertisementA spokesman said that each sexual offender was considered on a case-by-case basis by senior military personnel officers, while risk assessments were conducted in order to take into account factors such as the nature and seriousness of the case.

"The decision to keep an individual in the Services who has been convicted of a sexual offence is not taken lightly," he added.

He said that the MoD had a duty of confidentiality and a duty of care towards all servicemen and women.

The spokesman added that, while it was able to release the total number "known to be" on the sex offenders' register, the ministry was not prepared to discuss individual cases "as to do so could place those individuals at risk".

"If they were to be identified and abused as a result of the release of this information, the MoD would not have upheld its duties as an employer to that individual."

The figures were released in response to a Freedom of Information request.

Earlier this year, a survey revealed that two thirds of women in the Armed Forces had suffered sexual harassment over the past year.

Ninety-nine per cent of servicewomen said they had witnessed "sexualised behaviour" which included sexist jokes and language, inappropriate touching or more serious sexual assaults while two out of three were victims themselves.

The survey of more than 9,000 women was carried out after the Equal Opportunities Commission launched an investigation into the military.

The Army is still reeling from the publication earlier this year of a report into the deaths of four young soldiers at the Deepcut Army barracks, in Surrey, cataloguing a history of abuse and bullying.

Kirk
"Lets grab this bull by the horns and swing it about a bit"
 
Michael,

I don't know - is there anyone who has special expertise in dealing with abuse cases in the American military?

If you want to prove a cover-up of abuse in the army I imagine you would need pretty good documentation. I'm not sure how much you will be helped by the fact that you have PTSD.

Much love,
Larry
 
Mike,

I hope you can prove your case, and any documentation you have, I hope you will share with the proper authorities. Good luck to you. I hope you can find peace and resolution.

Leosha
 
Who do I talk to with the info that I have ?
 
Mike,

Frankly, I have no idea. But if I were looking into this in the USA I would try to identify a major national child abuse organization, ask their advice and follow things up from there.

I think dealing with the military will be especially difficult, so get the best input you can on how to proceed.

Much love,
Larry
 
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