Fort Hood Female Soldier Creates App to Fight for Sexual Assault Victims

Fort Hood Soldier Creates App to Help Sexual Assault Victims
KCEN News
By Tiffany Pelt
Updated: Sep 28, 2015

“The app will allow you access to one touch call for the III Corps Hotline, touch to call for Army OneSource, the local ER, Military and other local police stations,” she said. “Where ever they are at, if they need help all you have to do is push the icon.”

FORT HOOD – It is a new weapon in the war against sexual assault within the military, and the creator is right here at Fort Hood.

“All they have to do is open it,” said Sgt. First Class Sarah Whatley. “Anything they could potentially need would be at the touch of a finger.”

For two years, Whatley has served as a brigade SARC, a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, for the 1st Air Cav Brigade at Fort Hood. She handles all sexual assault complaints for her brigade and helps link the victim to their needed resources.

“I think some of the hardest things for me personally is witnessing how much the event has changed them as a person,” she said. “You can really tell how bad it hurts and how much they break down.”

Dealing with these victims and seeing the pain her fellow soldiers were enduring sparked something within Whatley. Her mission: make the process easier for the victims and bring more awareness to the issue of sexual assault.
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