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Washington Post: Disgraced Army general, Jeffrey A. Sinclair, gets $20,000 fine, no jail time

Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from the Washington Post:

Advocacy groups for sexual- assault victims were quick to seize on the outcomes as another sign that the military justice system is ill-equipped to handle such cases.

Nancy Parrish, the president of Protect our Defenders, said the results would discourage other members of the military from coming forward to report sex crimes.

“The military’s promises of ‘zero tolerance’ for sexual offenses continues to ring hollow as yet another high ranking official is let off the hook,” she said of the Sinclair case. “It has been long known within the military that General Sinclair conducted himself in outrageous and inappropriate, even unlawful ways. His behavior was not addressed until this victim came forward.”

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