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Sexual Assault Reports Jump at Military Academies, Pentagon Finds

Anna Mulrine reports for The Christian Science Monitor on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish:

The spike in the report is caused by “a culture of high tolerance for rape and sexual predators in the ranks that pervades the military,” argued Parrish, adding that victims who report the crime often face retaliation “including victim-blaming, isolation, and bad performance reviews.”

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