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Military Faces Scores Of Sexual Assault Cases

HeadlineFeb 26, 2004

According to the New York Times, the US military is facing the gravest accusations of sexual misconduct in years, with dozens of servicewomen in the Persian Gulf area and elsewhere saying they were sexually assaulted or raped by fellow troops. The Pentagon has now received 112 reports of sexual misconduct among soldiers stationed in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. In addition at the Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, about two dozen women reported to a local rape-crisis center in 2002.

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