Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from the Washington Post:
Others were more strident. Nancy Parrish, president of Protect our Defenders, a group that offers legal representation to sex-crime victims in the military, said that the Pentagon’s annual report offers no insights into whether more troops are being attacked, much less why they were willing to come forward to file a report.
The Pentagon, Parrish said in a statement, “has released no evidence to prove its claim that victims have more trust in the existing military justice system or the treatment they have received.”
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he was confident, however, that changes he has ordered over the last year were having an effect and that victims had more faith that the military would handle their cases properly and with sensitivity.
