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Study: More sex assaults occur in military than reported

By William H. McMichael

The director of the Pentagon’s program to prevent and respond to sexual assault in the ranks is not surprised at a government investigation’s conclusion that far more rapes and other sexual assaults are being committed than reports indicate.

It’s one of the nation’s most underreported crimes, period, said Kaye Whitley, director of the Defense Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.
 
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Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on 09/08/2008
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Source URL: http://www.nsvrc.org/news/news-field/324

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[1] http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/09/army_sexassault_090708w/
[2] http://www.nsvrc.org/news/news-from-the-field