Why Pentagon’s Progress Against Sexual Assault Is So Slow

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Why Pentagon’s Progress Against Sexual Assault Is So Slow

Posted by POD Staff, August 29th, 2012

Anna Mulrine reports for the Christian Science Monitor :

Today, failure to prosecute some prominent sexual-assault cases is a key reason many victims never come forward to report the crime … Well-meaning victim advocates would often advise the victim against reporting the crime to avoid being prosecuted for such offenses.

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