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Monday, May 20, 2013

Pentagon estimated 13,000 males suffered military sexual abuse

How many like these men committed suicide that fall under the DOD's claim they were not deployed?
Male Military Rape Survivors Speak Out
May 18, 2013
UPI

Male survivors of rape while serving in the military say they are often deemed "liars and troublemakers" when they report abuse.

The Pentagon estimated about 13,000 of the 1.2 million men serving in the military suffered sexual assault last year, NBC News reported. About 12,100 of the 203,000 women in uniform were sexually assaulted on active duty last year.

The Defense Department has said men "report at much lower rates than female survivors." Brian Lewis, a rape survivor who served in the Navy, said that is because male survivors are "still viewed as having wanted it."

"As a culture, we've somewhat moved past the idea that a female wanted this trauma to occur, but we haven't moved past that for male survivors," Lewis said. "In a lot of areas of the military, men are still viewed as having wanted it or of being homosexual. That's not correct at all. It's a crime of power and control."
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