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Court: Leaders not liable for subordinates’ bad decisions

The Army Times reports:

Janet Galla was serving as a hospital corpsman on a Navy ship in 2004 when she was brutally attacked by a co-worker.

On June 11, after returning to the ship from dinner with friends, she stopped by the medical department to check her email. She was approached by a fellow corpsman who lured her into an empty operating room and then raped her after she rebuffed his advances.

Galla reported the assault and her attacker later was convicted. But from that night on, the rape haunted her.

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