Guardian: US military sexual assault reports soared 50% in 2013, says Pentagon
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from the Guardian:
Nancy Parish, president of Protect Our Defenders, said: “The news of DOD’s latest report, coupled with the long list of recent bungled courts-martial and trivial punishments of those convicted, highlights the severity of the military’s sexual assault epidemic.”
She said the “persistent stream of reports … suggests the military is either unwilling or incapable of solving this crisis, and further underscores the need for strong action from our elected leaders, whose failure to support an objective, impartial military justice system for our troops makes them complicit.”
In March, the Senate narrowly defeated Gillibrand’s bill that would have stripped commanders of their authority to oversee the prosecutions of sexual assault cases and other major crimes. The Pentagon had lobbied heavily against the measure.
