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Lucylastic -> RE: Muslim culture rape vs western culture rape (6/8/2016 6:39:11 AM)
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In March 2016, Human Rights Watch wrote to the secretary of defense to share these initial findings. We released the final report, “Booted: Lack of Recourse for Wrongfully Discharged US Military Rape Survivors,” two weeks ago.
A recent Department of Defense report showed that 25 percent of service members who were administratively discharged after reporting a sexual assault were separated from the military for misconduct. Usually misconduct accounts for 8 percent of discharges. Rape victims were also more likely than average to get “other than honorable discharges.”
In March 2016, Human Rights Watch wrote to the secretary of defense to share these initial findings. We released the final report, “Booted: Lack of Recourse for Wrongfully Discharged US Military Rape Survivors,” two weeks ago.
A recent Department of Defense report showed that 25 percent of service members who were administratively discharged after reporting a sexual assault were separated from the military for misconduct. Usually misconduct accounts for 8 percent of discharges. Rape victims were also more likely than average to get “other than honorable discharges.”
Veterans with less than fully honorable discharges may be denied access to benefits ranging from education to health care. They live with the stigma of being labelled a “bad soldier,” which makes it harder to get jobs. Less than fully honorable discharges correlate with high rates of suicide, homelessness, and incarceration. Attempts to change the discharge classification have usually been futile because the services prioritize misconduct over mental health conditions when considering a separation.
This new policy changes that – at least for those in the Navy.
It could also help Heath Phillips, who was repeatedly gang-raped as a 17-year-old new recruit to the Navy in 1989. When his ship was about to leave port, he faced a choice of fleeing or being confined to a boat with his attackers. He fled, but turned himself in immediately. He was given a choice between the brig on the ship or an “other than honorable” discharge. He said at that point, “I would have signed a deal with the devil himself to escape the torture I kept getting while on board the ship.” He had been diagnosed with PTSD as a result of the repeated rapes he suffered. For two decades he struggled with alcohol and had difficulties holding jobs. He was unable to get help from the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system because of his other than honorable discharge. Attempts to upgrade his discharge failed because the misconduct – running off – trumped other considerations.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/03/dispatches-us-navy-protect-soldiers-mental-health-conditions
Testing of backlogged rape kits yields new insights into rapists
Finding have major implications for how sexual assaults should be investigated
"These rape kits have been the greatest gold mine of information and leads for law enforcement that I have seen in my four-decade career," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty. "We are going to end up prosecuting a thousand criminals, and that will make our county significantly safer. But we also want to learn from mistakes that created this backlog and never allow them to be repeated."
"The thousand or more cases we expect to solve will help us understand the behavior of these career criminals so that police can more effectively and promptly investigate and prosecute rapes. This task force will prevent new victims from being attacked because these criminals will be in prison," McGinty added.
Among the research team's early findings, available in a series of briefs now online:
• Serial rapists are far more common than previous studies had suggested. Of the 243 sexual assaults studied, 51 percent were tied to serial offenders, who generally had more extensive and violent criminal histories than one-time sexual offenders.
"Our findings suggest it is very likely that a sexual offender has either previously sexually assaulted or will offend again in the future," said Rachel Lovell, a senior research associate at the Begun Center and co-leader of the Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kit Pilot Research Project. "Investigating each sexual assault as possibly perpetrated by a serial offender has the potential to reduce the number of sexual assaults if investigations focus more on the offender than on single incidents."
• Rapists have long criminal histories that often began before their first documented sexual assault and continued after it.
An overwhelming majority of both serial and one-time sexual offenders had felony-level criminal histories: 74 percent of all serial rapists had at least one prior felony arrest and 95 percent of them had at least one subsequent felony arrest. Among one-time sexual assault offenders, the figures were 51 percent and 78 percent.
Among the serial sex offenders, 26 percent had a prior arrest for sexual assault and 60 percent had a subsequent arrest for sexual assault (not related to the sexual assault identified in the SAK Initiative).
"These are one-man crime waves," said Prosecutor McGinty. "And now that we realize this, we cannot allow these kits to sit on shelves untested in the future. They hold the keys to identifying and convicting dangerous criminals."
• Serial and one-time rape suspects exhibited different behaviors during their crimes.
For example, sexual assaults committed by serial offenders more frequently involved kidnapping victims and then verbally and physically threatening them, often with weapons. And yet sexual assaults committed by serial offenders less frequently involved restraining victims and injuring them in order to complete the attack. One-time offenders were actually more likely to punch, slap, hold down or restrain a victim.
Serial offenders were more likely to commit sexual assault outdoors, in a vehicle, or a garage while a one-time offender was more likely to attack in his own house, or the house of the victim or a third party. Serial sexual offenders tend to attack in the same type of location: 58 percent of serial offenders commit all of their crimes in the same type of setting.
One-time offenders are more likely than serial offenders to commit sexual assaults with others, such as participating in gang rapes.
• Serial offenders were more frequently strangers to their victims compared to one-time offenders.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606122823.htm
The Steubenville High School rape occurred in Steubenville, Ohio, on the night of August 11, 2012, when a high-school girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was publicly and repeatedly sexually assaulted by her peers, several of whom documented the acts on social media. The victim was transported, undressed, photographed, and sexually assaulted. She was also penetrated vaginally by other students' fingers (digital penetration), an act defined as rape under Ohio law.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steubenville_High_School_rape_case
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