Huffington Post: Female Veteran And Rape Survivor Thought, ‘It’ll Hurt Less Than If I’m Alive’
Reporter Molly O’Toole at the Huffington Post continues her ongoing series on military suicides:
In just a year in the Army, Jessica Kenyon said she was sexually assaulted three different times, her trauma compounded by two botched rape investigations and retaliation and harassment from her superiors and fellow soldiers.
She had long dreamed of military service, but her time as an Army helicopter mechanic turned out to be “an absolute nightmare,” she said. “I went into a depression spiral. I was still trying to prove myself while going downhill emotionally, physically.”
