USA Today: Reports of sexual assault dip at military academies
USA Today reports:
Reports of sexual assaults among cadets and midshipmen declined at two of the three military academies, according to a Pentagon report.
There were 53 sexual assaults reported at the academies during the 2012-13 school year compared with 58 reports in 2011-12. The Pentagon’s study, scheduled for release Friday but obtained by USA TODAY, cautioned that officials cannot say with certainty that the decline “was due to fewer assaults occurring, or due to fewer victims willing to report.”
Reports of sexual assault decreased at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. They rose at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
The reported attacks were for incidents that happened while the cadets and midshipmen were in military service.
