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Military Provides Inadequate Care for Injuries Suffered During Sexual Assaults

Kay Steiger reports for The Raw Story on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish:

Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish provided an email statement to Raw Story in response to the report on inadequate care for sexual assault in the military by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

“The military leadership has failed for over 25 years to fundamentally address the crisis of sexual assault in our military, half measures regularly put forward by Congress and DoD are not answers…Every aspect, from prevention and victim care, to investigation, prosecution, and adjudication is fundamentally dysfunctional and there has been no coherent effort to fix the deficiencies.”

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