{"id":154138,"date":"2015-05-25T02:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154138"},"modified":"2015-05-25T02:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:43:34","slug":"us-military-rape-victims-face-revenge-regret-reporting-crimes-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-military-rape-victims-face-revenge-regret-reporting-crimes-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"US military rape victims face revenge, regret reporting crimes \u2014 lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/261677-sexual-assault-us-military\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>) &#8211; The US military\u2019s system of prosecution has to change, as rape victims are often put in positions where they even regret coming forward, Maribel Jarzabek, ex-Air Force lawyer, said on a recent HRW survey of sexual assault survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Of those who answered the US Army\u2019s call to come out as sexual assault victims, 62 percent are facing backlash from their commanders and fellow servicemen, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/reports\/2015\/05\/18\/embattled-0\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> released by Human Rights Watch earlier this week stated.<\/p>\n<p>The victims are <em>\u201cspat on, deprived of food, assailed with obscenities \u2014 whore, cum-dumpster, slut, faggot \u2014 threatened with \u2018friendly fire\u2019 during deployment\u2026 demoted, disciplined [or] discharged for misconduct,\u201d<\/em> the paper entitled <em>\u201cEmbattled: Retaliation against sexual assault survivors in the US military\u201d<\/em> said.<\/p>\n<p>According to HRW, only 5 percent of sexual assault cases in the US military lead to convictions of the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cVirtually no-one is held accountable\u201d<\/em> for retaliating against those reporting rape and other abuses, the report added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/261677-sexual-assault-us-military\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RT) &#8211; The US military\u2019s system of prosecution has to change, as rape victims are often put in positions where they even regret coming forward, Maribel Jarzabek, ex-Air Force lawyer, said on a recent HRW survey of sexual assault survivors. Of those who answered the US Army\u2019s call to come out as sexual assault victims, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}