Are You Aware of Our American Female Military Rape Victims ?

Published June 30, 2010

Question by H J: Are you aware of our American female military Rape victims ?
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BRANCACCIO: Worldwide, there are roughly 26,000 women currently deployed in U.S. military combat and support zones. The biggest number ever. Over the past year, NOW’s been reporting on the danger those women face, and not just from combat.

Department of Defense records show that last year, there were almost fourteen hundred reports of women being assaulted and raped by their fellow soldiers and in some cases by their commanding officers. And there’s evidence that many other incidents were never reported at all.

Senior correspondent Maria Hinojosa and producer Megan Thompson have the latest developments in our investigation.
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