Navy Football Players Face Annapolis Rape Inquiry

[SlimJimmy]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As midshipmen were graduating from the Naval Academy here last week, Navy investigators were conducting an investigation into reports that several football players had serially raped a female midshipman at an off-campus party last year.

Three Navy football players are under investigation in the case, according to Naval Academy officials. No charges have been brought, but the academy has delayed the graduation of one of the three midshipmen and his commissioning in the Navy, according to academy officials and others briefed on the inquiry. The academy’s superintendent, Vice Adm. Michael H. Miller, is expected to receive a final report from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in the next week or two and then decide whether to proceed with charges, according to academy officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/us/naval-academy-shaken-by-report-of-rape-and-inquiry.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

As a Navy veteran, if this is true, then it just disgusts me.

[MADem]

1. Concur. Annapolis was doing well--better than the USAF Academy, anyway--lately.

You can be sure there will be a major crackdown that will impact the next half decade of matriculating classes.

I find it troubling that they dragged their feet on this investigation so that their players wouldn't miss the football season, but they were quick to nail the victim on an alcohol charge.

VADM Miller had better do the right thing, assuming there's enough evidence in that NCIS report to move forward.

[markiv]

2. bazzarre that a place that would read you the riot act, for a messy locker

would have such behavior

[rl6214]

3. My son is stationed at the academy.

I ll have to give him a all to see what he knows about it.

[Demoiselle]

4. I have a problem with the whole boozy thing.

I feel like a visiting Martian when I read stories like this....I don't understand the need or the ability to drink this much. (And by "this much, " I mean enough to cut off both raper and rapee's ability to STOP THIS CRAP RIGHT NOW!!!!!! )

I also don't have any capacity for booze. Perhaps the truth is that i would throw up and pass out before I got to the point of being either perpetrator or perpetratee.

And I also don't understand what possible turn-on there could be in penetrating a virtually comatose woman.

Just sayin'.