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Report: AFA Cadets Rape, Get High, and Cheat
Air Force Academy athletes, including football players, participated in wild off-campus parties featuring booze, marijuana, and date-rape drugs, according to an investigative report. The report by the Colorado Springs Gazette, based in part on Freedom of Information Act documents, stated that “cadet athletes flouted the sacred honor code by committing sexual assaults, taking drugs, cheating…
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Midshipman facing sexual assault charges wants superintendent removed from case
One of two midshipman facing court-martial in the alleged sexual assault of a classmate asked a federal judge Wednesday to remove the U.S. Naval Academy’s superintendent from the case, saying he is biased against the defendants. Joshua Tate, 21, of Nashville, filed a motion in federal court in Baltimore asking U.S. District Court Judge Ellen…
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House Passes Two Speier Amendments on Military Sexual Assault in Defense Appropriations Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House today passed two amendments offered by Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2397), both related to the handling of sexual assault cases. The amendments address the pervasive misuse of ‘personality and adjustment disorder’ as a diagnosis of victims of sexual assault and…
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House Gives Whistle-Blower Protection to Military Sexual Assault Victims
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House has approved a bill extending whistle-blower protection to members of the military who are victims of sexual assault. The vote Thursday was 423-0 for the measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana. The bill would require the inspector general to investigate allegations of retaliation against a service member…
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Panayiota Bertzikis and Military Rape Crisis Center featured in Glamour
Attention Rapists: You’ve Met Your Match From Steubenville, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., from city courts to Twitter feeds, a new generation of women are taking the fight for justice into their own hands. Let their total fearlessness inspire you…. That outrage is moving many women to action. After Panayiota Bertzikis, 31, reported being assaulted by…
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Air Force Officer In Charge of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response arrested for sexual battery.
Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski was arrested early Sunday morning for assaulting a woman in an Arlington, VA. The police report states: On May 5 at 12:35 am, a drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks. The victim fought the suspect off as he attempted to touch…
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Protest outside of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Join us in protest in Tucson, AZ on Thursday, April 25 at 4:30pm outside of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (Intersection of S. Kolb Rd & E Irvington Rd), calling on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to remove Lt. Col. Wilkerson, a fighter pilot convicted of aggravated sexual assault from the United States Air Force. more info:…
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Military Rape Crisis Center offers support group in Phoenix, AZ
The Military Rape Crisis Center is going to start offering a women support groups for survivors of Military Sexual Trauma in Phoenix, AZ. The first group meets on April 27th in downtown Phoenix. All female Veterans, Active Duty, Reserves and Guard members are welcomed to sign up and join us. We have just a couple…
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Lt. Col James Wilkerson, convicted of sexual assault, is assigned to victim’s hometown
By Panayiota Bertzikis. In November 2012 military jury convicted Air Force Lt. Col James Wilkerson, a former inspector general at Aviano Air Base in Italy, of sexually assaulting a civilian contractor. After being found guilty by a jury of five; four colonels and a lieutenant colonel, he was sentenced to a year in jail, forfeiture of all pay and discharged from the service. Three months later, in February…
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Coast Guard Academy superintendent make excuses for sexual predators
The United States Coast Guard Academy reports 10% of all female cadets experienced unwanted sexual contact, a 2% increase from the previous year. More than half of the women that reported sexual abuse had said alcohol and/or drugs were used as a tool to commit these crimes. Unwanted sexual contact includes a range of behaviors, from sexual assault…
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