Northwest Herald: Marengo woman speaks out after sexual assaults in military
Northwest Herald reports:
More than a quarter of the approximately 200,000 women currently serving in the military will be sexually assaulted during their careers, according to the Pentagon. Beck knows this statistic all too well, as she said she was assaulted twice during her seven years in the Air Force.
“I don’t think I have a friend that says they haven’t been raped,” Beck said of her fellow female airmen.
Beck, a Marengo resident, now speaks openly about her military experiences. She is joined by others, as evidenced by the recent charges of sexual assault made against the heads of the Air Force’s and Army’s sexual assault prevention programs, as well as three players on the Naval Academy’s football team.
“If I don’t speak about it, nobody else is going to,” she said.
