Bloomberg: U.S. Sergeant Raped in Afghanistan Found Nowhere to Go

David Lerman reports for Bloomberg News on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee Member Brian Lewis:

Brian Lewis, a former Navy petty officer third class who said he was raped by a superior noncommissioned officer, told Congress the proposal would have helped him.

“An independent prosecutor would have made a world of difference,” Lewis said at the hearing in March. “It would have gotten the reporting outside of the chain of command and not enabled my commanding officer to sweep this under the rug.”

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