{"id":581054,"date":"2021-07-03T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=581054"},"modified":"2021-07-03T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T16:06:22","slug":"head-of-independent-review-commission-discusses-findings-on-sexual-assault-in-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/head-of-independent-review-commission-discusses-findings-on-sexual-assault-in-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Independent Review Commission discusses findings on sexual assault in military"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fhead-of-independent-review-commission-discusses-findings-on-sexual-assault-in-military%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=581054&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--><div id=\"attachment_2445381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2445381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soldiers, officers and civilian employees attend the commencement ceremony for the U.S. Army\u2019s annual observance of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in the Pentagon Center Courtyard March 31, 2015 in Arlington, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:56 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, July 3, 2021<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2681145\/independent-review-commission-recommendations-on-countering-sexual-assault-in-t\/\">New findings<\/a> that detail sexual assault in the military have been released and reveal shocking statistics. On Friday, head of the Independent Review Commission, Lynn Rosenthal, discussed the findings at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades leaders have said that there is no tolerance for sexual assault, but in practice all too often there is nothing but tolerance. As one senior enlisted officer told us in our listening sessions, zero tolerance actually means&nbsp; 100 percent tolerance,\u201d said Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p>The commission met with more than 600 people including survivors, current and previous service members, commanders and several other individuals to conduct the extensive review.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We must do more as a Department to counter the scourge of sexual assault and sexual harassment in our military. <\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m directing the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeptofDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DeptofDefense<\/a> to move forward on several reforms on this front. Among them, working with Congress to directly amend the UCMJ by: (1\/5)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDef\/status\/1410981473327452168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rosenthal laid out the statistics, reporting 20,000 service members experience sexual assault every year with less than 8,000 reporting those occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, \u201cless than 5,000 of those are unrestricted reports meaning the victim has said he or she wants a full investigation and only a tiny fraction of those end up with any kind of action at all within the military justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosenthal said every survivor they spoke with regretted reporting their assault due to fear and added that some even contemplated suicide. \u201cVictims pay a high price for coming forward to report their assault and again this was a shocking, heartbreaking finding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The review\u2019s findings come after Republican Rep. Mike Turner (Ohio) and Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier (Calif.) introduced legislation to the House, putting prosecution decisions in the hands of independent military prosecutors.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/report-ambush-style-attacks-on-police-up-91-percent-this-year\/\">Report: Ambush-Style Attacks On Police Up 91 Percent This Year<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers, officers and civilian employees attend the commencement ceremony for the U.S. Army\u2019s annual observance of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in the Pentagon Center Courtyard March 31, 2015 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581054","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\/581054","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581054\/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=581054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}