House panel blasts DOD over response to sexual assault claims

[unhappycamper]

Source: Stars and Stripes



Mary Lauterbach testifies before Congress Thursday about her daughter Maria, a lance corporal who investigators say was murdered in December by a fellow Marine she had accused of raping her.


House panel blasts DOD over response to sexual assault claims
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, August 1, 2008

WASHINGTON ” House members infuriated by slow progress on the military's response to sexual assault claims accused defense leaders of a cover-up and tossed a senior department official from a Thursday hearing on the issue.

"Years of inaction at the DOD continue to speak volumes about senior leadership's commitment to our servicemembers and civil servants," said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. "When it comes to sexual assault in the military, the DOD has absolutely no credibility.

"I really hope heads roll."

Military officials at the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing said improvements have been made in training and crime reporting options for victims in recent years, but acknowledged more work needs to be done.

Read more: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=56486

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uhc comment: Mr. Dominguez was banished from the hearing by Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass. --> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3713810&mesg_id=3713810

[Limelight]

1. They sweep this stuff under the rug....

God these people that cover stuff like this up cuz one, they're more concerned about propagandizing the war and protecting the image of how necessary it is that they could give a crap about actual protecting these women, and two, because they are such misogynists that they think women shouldn't be there, therefore it was "bound" to happen anyway, are so utterly loathsome. Man could you imagine what would happen to this war if parents sending their kids off to war found out that their daughters were in far less danger from the enemy than their own soldiers?!

We got to ring the damn alarm on this, especially for Lavena Johnson who is surely the most heinous example of a woman being brutalized and having some bastards in the army (Oh, oh, so sorry, I know everybody in uniform walks on water:sarcasm:) sweep that under the rug like her life was meaningless and there was no one who cared about her who would seek justice.

It's time to go after these bastards.:grr: