The Military and the Church: Bedfellows in Sexual Assault: ""When victims come forward, they are ostracized and isolated from their communities. Many of the perpetrators are officers who use their ranks to coerce women to sleep with them. It's a closely interwoven community, so they [perpetrators] are safe and move fearlessly amongst their victims."
The US military's response to reports of sexual abuse echoes that of another closed, rigidly hierarchal male institution, the Catholic Church: first silence and cover-up; then blame the victim and reassign the perpetrator; and, finally, lay the fault on a "few bad apples." Like the church's historic, internal handling of sexual abuse by priests, military commanders determine whether or not their soldiers face criminal proceedings....."
4 comments:
I am not surprised. These people in the Church and the Military, who rape, are sociopaths.
I don't care who perpetrates it, it's just plain evil and the guilty should be hung by their cojones!!!
They really are. More needs to be done about this. It's an epidemic in this country and many people in the justice system aren't taking it seriously enough. It's bullshit.
That would definitely be nice!
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