Military Rape Crisis Center

Washington: The National Organization for Women newest campaign aims to assist us in helping us put an end to sexual assault in the military.NOW President Kim Gandy is ordering President Obama to put an end to this epidemic. We urge immediate sponsorship of the Military Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Response Act (H.R.840). The bill…

BY Melissa O’Brien, Military Rape Crisis Center, April 7th 2009 Washington-As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Department of Defense launched a new social marketing campaign today called Our Strength is for Defending. This research-based prevention strategy is designed to empower service members to intervene in situations where possible sexual assaults may occur. “We…

It’s a potent environment, with female soldiers working – and living – under hostile conditions with their male counterparts. One soldier, who asked us to call him Robert, spent three tours in Iraq as a signal unit leader out of Ft. Lewis in Washington state. “For the female soldiers, it was far harder to adjust,”…

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/08/nation/na-women-soldier-suicides8 A father combs through the evidence, looking for answers to a case already closed by the military. He says she was raped and shot. March 08, 2009|David Zucchino FLORISSANT, MO. — Inside the tidy suburban St. Louis home of John and Linda Johnson, no photos of their eldest daughter grace the walls. Army Pfc.…

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/03/military_sex_assault_030609w/ By William H. McMichael – Staff writer Posted : Friday Mar 6, 2009 15:49:03 EST Looking out for one’s “battle buddy” while off duty as well as on has emerged as a central element of all four services’ efforts to combat sexual assault within the ranks, service program managers told the House Armed Services…

On October 29, 1991, Senator John McCain went to the floor of the US Senate. The former Navy pilot was angry and disgusted. In recent days, the news had broken that the previous month Navy airmen and others had gone wild—engaging in sexual molestation, out-of-control drinking, and other misconduct—at the Tailhook Association convention in Las…

by Ann Wright The Department of Defense statistics are alarming — one in three women who join the US military will be sexually assaulted or raped by men in the military. The warnings to women should begin above the doors of the military recruiting stations, as that is where assaults on women in the military…

An active duty Coast Guard member accused of having more than 100 images and 17 full length child porn movies learned Friday he’ll be staying in jail for the time being. 25 year old Petty Officer 3rd Class John David Cadenas has been temporarily stationed here in Corpus Christi. According to Friday’s court testimony, during…

A U.S. Army recruiter in Hackettstown, N.J. is charged with stripping naked, entering a home and surfing Internet pornography sites. Court records said Jerry Mahaffey, 26, was charged early Saturday morning when police received a call about an intruder bleeding from cuts, the Eastern (Pa.) Express-Times reported Tuesday. Jorge Arevalo said he was asleep and…