Hartford Courant: Blumenthal Asks Obama To Change Military’s Pre-Trial Process In Sex Assault Cases
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from the Hartford Courant:
Blumenthal and Boxer are co-sponsors of the Senate bill introduced by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Susan Collins (R-Maine.) It would establish a process for trained, independent military prosecutors to decide whether to prosecute sexual assault crimes. Speier introduced the House bill.
Nancy Parrish, president of Protect Our Defenders, a veterans’ advocacy group, expressed support for changing Article 32. She called the current process “a brutal and broken system that allows for victims of sexual assault to face horrifying abuse and mistreatment after they report their assault.”
“It has become another means of intimidating the victim, or at a minimum, lessening the likelihood that justice will prevail in their cases,” she added in a statement.
