The kind of brutality that has apparently existed at the U.S. Air Force Academy is a violation of the fundamental values of U.S. law, military law, and the American spirit. I'm certainly no expert on the military, but it seems to me that if these revelations do not result in both sweeping change and tough punishments, something is really rotten at the heart of the military culture.
An Air Force Academy graduate has told an oversight panel she was raped by two cadets at the academy's prepatory school in retaliation for reporting an earlier rape.Posted by Alan at September 6, 2003 10:35 AMThe charges were contained in an unsolicited letter from the victim last week to members of a congressionally chartered panel that is looking into alleged mishandling of sexual assault cases at the school over the past decade.
Although panel members would not discuss the case in detail, they said during a rare public session Friday that it helps explain a climate that has made so many female cadets too fearful to report sexual assaults.
The retaliatory rape charge was contained in a letter the panel received last week. The writer said the initial rape occurred when she was a student at the academy's preparatory school, which is on the grounds of the Air Force Academy and prepares students to be accepted into the academy.
She said that after reporting the initial rape, commanders began an investigation that eventually caused her attacker to be expelled. However, one night when she was in her dormitory room, two other male cadets entered and raped her in retaliation, the letter said.
via the Rocky Mountain News