{"id":1640618,"date":"2022-09-14T05:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640618"},"modified":"2022-09-14T05:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:04:37","slug":"pentagon-says-13-percent-jump-in-sexual-assault-reports-in-military-is-tragic-and-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-says-13-percent-jump-in-sexual-assault-reports-in-military-is-tragic-and-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Says 13 Percent Jump in Sexual Assault Reports in Military Is \u2018Tragic and Disappointing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-says-13-percent-jump-in-sexual-assault-reports-in-military-is-tragic-and-disappointing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-sexual-assault\">sexual assault<\/a> reports in the United States Armed Forces surged during the fiscal year 2021,\u00a0according to an\u00a0annual\u00a0report\u00a0released by the Department of Defense (DOD) in August.<\/p>\n<p>The report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapr.mil\/sites\/default\/files\/public\/docs\/reports\/AR\/DOD_Annual_Report_on_Sexual_Assault_in_the_Military_FY2021.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) showed that the department received a total of 8,866 reports of sexual assault, which marks a roughly 13 percent\u00a0increase from the 7,816 reports made in the fiscal year 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 8,866 reports, 7,260 were from active duty members making an \u201cunrestricted or restricted report\u201d of sexual assault for\u00a0an incident they claimed to have experienced during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-military\">military<\/a> service.<\/p>\n<p>The number of sexual assault cases is the highest reported by the department since it began tracking sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact cases in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, an estimated 8.5 percent of female active duty service members indicated that they experienced unwanted\u00a0sexual contact in 2021, while 1.5 percent of male\u00a0service members received\u00a0unwanted\u00a0sexual contact.<\/p>\n<p>The fiscal year covered in the report ran from Oct. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on these rates, the Department estimates that 35,875 active duty Service members experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact in the year prior to being surveyed,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>Congress requires the DOD to provide an annual report on sexual assault involving members of the military. The term \u201csexual assault\u201d as used by the department refers to a number of crimes such as rape, sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact, abusive sexual contact, and\u00a0attempts to commit such offenses.<\/p>\n<p>The department noted that it is unable to \u201cscientifically determine if there was a true increase in the prevalence of unwanted sexual contact for Fiscal Year 2021 due to the change in the metric used to measure sexual assault.\u201d That change was bought about by budget cuts prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Unhealthy Military Climate\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a departure from prior surveys, which used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of sexual assault reports in the United States Armed Forces surged during the fiscal year 2021,\u00a0according to an\u00a0annual\u00a0report\u00a0released by the Department of Defense (DOD) in August. The report (pdf) showed that the department received a total of 8,866 reports of sexual assault, which marks a roughly 13 percent\u00a0increase from the 7,816 reports made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}