According to the Pentagon, segxwalassaults in the military have increased to the alarming level of 70 per day or three every hour, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The report added that 26,000 service members were segxwally assaulted in 2012, a 35-percent increase since 2010 when 19,000such cases were reported.
However, the overall rate of segxwalassault in the US military may be higher, as many victims fail to report out of fear of vengeance orlack of justice under the military’s system of prosecution, the report added.
“The more closed and hierarchical an institution is, the more the victim is stigmatized and the rapist gets away with it,” said Susan Brooks, pastor and volunteer rape crisis counselor.
Brooks went on to condemn the US military for maintaining a culture of gender and power relations, which she says produces the rape culture among service members.
Many high-ranking US military commanders have recently been convicted and relieved of duties for multiple segxwal offenses and corruption over the years.
On May 6, authorities said Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, director of the segxwal assault prevention program for the US AirForce, has himself been detained for segxwally assaulting a woman not far from the military headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
In 2012, over 30 male Air Force boot camp trainers were cited forsegxwally harassing, abusing and molesting at least 59 military recruits at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
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