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Pentagon’s Annual Report on Sexual Assault Shows Alarming Rise

Courtney Kube and Jim Miklaszewski report for NBC News:

While the report will show that the number of reported assaults in fiscal year 2012 rose only 6 percent to 3,374 — up from 3,192 a year before — the number of people who made an anonymous claim that they were sexually assaulted but never reported the attack skyrocketed from 19,000 in FY11 to 26,000 in FY12.

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