{"id":85440,"date":"2019-03-07T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85440"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:32:26","slug":"u-s-senator-mcsally-an-air-force-veteran-says-she-was-raped-by-a-superior-officer-but-did-not-report-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85440","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator McSally, an Air Force veteran, says she was raped by a superior officer but did not report it."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sexual assault and harassment in the U.S. military is largely under-reported and came under renewed scrutiny after a scandal involving Marines sharing nude photos of women online came to light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The so called\u00a0scandal involving Marines sharing nude photos of women online had nothing to do with rape.\u00a0 The pictures posted were not of women naked taken without their knowledge.\u00a0 The nude photos that were posted were sent to Marines by those women.\u00a0 The photos taken\u00a0without them knowing about it were not nude and were taken in public places…mostly the gym.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Martha McSally, the first female combat pilot in the U.S. Air Force, said on Wednesday she had been raped by a superior officer but did not report it because she blamed herself and did not trust the system.<\/p>\n

“The perpetrators abuse their position of power in profound ways, and in one case I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer,” McSally, an Arizona Republican, said during a Senate hearing on sexual assault in the military.<\/p>\n

“But unlike so many brave survivors, I didn’t report being sexually assaulted,” she added. “Like so many women and men, I didn’t trust the system. I blamed myself. I was ashamed and confused. I thought I was strong but felt powerless.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be clear, anyone who rapes a woman while in the military should be buried under the shitters at Ft. Knox.<\/p>\n

However, a Colonel in the military that refuses to report a crime should be held to a higher standard than others.\u00a0 I can not say that without being accused of blaming the victim.\u00a0 I am not blaming McSally for being raped, I am blaming her for putting other women in danger by not reporting the crime.<\/p>\n

What kind of crimes will she not report as a member of Congress? Does she now feel powerless to report crimes?<\/p>\n

There is a difference between the expectations of conduct between the average person and a Commanding Officer.<\/p>\n

She claims a crime was committed and wants to raise awareness.\u00a0 Thank you for pointing out you put others in harm’s way by lacking the intestinal fortitude to report a crime for years on end.<\/p>\n

Senator McSally had an outstanding career.\u00a0 If she was indeed a victim of sexual assault she has my deepest sympathy.\u00a0 She needs to speak\u00a0out about speaking\u00a0up.<\/p>\n

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Sexual assault and harassment in the U.S. military is largely under-reported and came under renewed scrutiny … U.S. Senator McSally, an Air Force veteran, says she was raped by a superior officer but did not report it.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":85441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}