RE: Women in the Military More Likely to Be Traumatized by Sexual Assault Than Combat
November 25, 2012 at 8:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2012 at 9:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A court martial would be nice, but isn't required for things to end terribly for the accused. Units are tight knit, stigma sticks, promotions and assignments are affected. People have "accidents" in stairwells. I'm not throwing my hat in with how this is handled (no more in the case of the service than I do in the case of civilian life), just offering my anecdotal experience.
(all of the problems associated with rape, reporting, prosecution, standards of evidence etc that are present in the civilian world are equally present in the military world, perhaps agitated by several factors...and then further exacerbated by a system of justice that is markedly inferior to the civilian one in this regard..add to that a penchant for punishing people "in-house", it's practically a trade paper in how not to handle shit correctly - I think that on this point we both agree, yeah?)
(all of the problems associated with rape, reporting, prosecution, standards of evidence etc that are present in the civilian world are equally present in the military world, perhaps agitated by several factors...and then further exacerbated by a system of justice that is markedly inferior to the civilian one in this regard..add to that a penchant for punishing people "in-house", it's practically a trade paper in how not to handle shit correctly - I think that on this point we both agree, yeah?)
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