Newsday Opinion Letter: Treat military sex assault victims
A letter from the co-chair of the Long Island Committee on Sexual Abuse and Family Violence:
I am writing in response to “She won’t back down” [News, June 30]. I also watched “The Invisible War,” the 2012 documentary about rape in the military. What struck me, aside from the stunning profiles of military sexual assault victims receiving more abuse than justice, was that no one in the film seemed to get treatment for the post-traumatic stress disorder they were clearly suffering from.
It is heartbreaking to read about the 26,000 people in the armed forces reporting allegations of sexual assault. How many have not reported? Or should we ask how many of the military suicides were victims of unreported sexual trauma?
