Category Archive for : ‘SOLDIERS’

May 13, 2021
Missy Ryan
Washington Post

Congressional measures targeting sexual assault in the military gained momentum Thursday as lawmakers voiced growing support for overhauling how decisions about prosecuting sex crimes are made.

Proposals in both chambers would strip military commanders of the authority to decide which alleged incidents of sexual assault are tried in military courts and which result in lesser punishments or are dismissed, reflecting lawmakers’ frustration with the failure of earlier attempts to end the scourge of harassment and assault in the ranks.

The measures, championed by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) in

NY Post

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had actually chosen to work as prostitutes.
In a recent academic paper, J. Mark Ramseyer rejected a wide body of research finding that Japan’s so-called “comfort women” were forced to work at military brothels during World War II. Ramseyer instead argued that the women willingly entered into contracts as sex workers.
His paper has intensified a political dispute between Japan, whose

March 21, 2021
Martin Jay
International Policy Digest

A rape victim and whistleblower is accusing the British government and MPs of “hypocrisy” over its recent grandiose statements on tackling sex crimes in the aid sector.

As the UN appears to be drowning in a deluge of rape allegations made against its soldiers in the world’s hotspots like the DRC, a UN whistleblower is warning that if the British government doesn’t follow up on its own recent MPs recommendations on sex crimes in the aid sector, then a “rape culture” will engulf UN agencies themselves,

March 18, 2021
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

Fort Hood leadership blocked sexual assault reporting, shamed victims and failed to identify “textbook” examples of grooming and “serial” offenders, investigators told Congress this week, following an independent review conducted in the wake of 20-year-old soldier Vanessa Guillén’s disappearance and murder, and a string other deaths and suicides connected to the U.S. Army base in Killeen, Texas.

The House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee held a hearing on the issue on Tuesday, looking to examine ways to reform criminal investigations in the military in the wake of

March 5, 2021
Tomomi Tomita
English Kyodo News

TOKYO – In a book by an Okinawan women’s civic group documenting sex crimes by U.S. soldiers in Japan, a 9-month-old infant girl is listed as the youngest rape victim.

Among a litany of cases the group began compiling after the rape of an Okinawan elementary schoolgirl by three U.S. soldiers in 1995, the 1949 crime by a U.S. serviceman who was an acquaintance of the baby’s mother stands out as arguably the most heinous and unimaginable — the baby reportedly died soon afterward.

But the acts

August 13, 2020
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

Three soldiers were arrested last weekend in a child prostitution sting conducted in the Texas town adjacent to the Fort Hood Army post, after they showed up to a location to meet underage girls for sex, police said.

Spc. Anthony Xavier Antwon, 25, and Pfc. Timmy Jones Jr., 30, each face a felony charge of prostitution under the age of 18, the Killeen Police Department said.

Staff Sgt. Pierre Jean, 32, received a Class A misdemeanor charge for prostitution.

Antwon and Jones are stationed at Fort Hood. They are