Lawmakers Seek More Changes to Military’s Sexual Assault Policies

Jeremy Herb reports for The Hill on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish:

“The question is, will Lt. Gen. Franklin’s actions be the tipping point?” said Nancy Parrish, president of Protect Our Defenders, an advocacy group for military sexual assault victims.

“There appears to be a growing number of members of Congress who are fed up with the status quo and the cycle of scandal after scandal,” she said.
Protect Our Defenders and the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) said that Hagel’s proposal this week did not do enough to address the underlying problems of how sexual assault cases are handled in the military.

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