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Betrayal in the Ranks DIGITAL NEWSBOOK INTRO PART 1 As many as 200,000 women have been sexually assaulted while serving in the armed forces. PART 2 Over the past decade, nearly 5,000 accused Army sex offenders have avoided prosecution. PART 3 More than 10,000 cases of spouse abuse were substantiated annually between 1997 and 2001. PROFILES In 2000, 12,068 cases of spouse abuse were reported; only 26 led to courts-martial. RESOU RC BETRAYAL ES IN THE RANKS Series written by Photography by SURVEY Amy Herdy Kathryn Scott Osler and Miles Moffeit and Helen H. Richardson Close Print Back 7 DIGITAL NEWSBOOK 8 Contents Search View THE DENVER POST ©2004 BETRAYAL IN THE RANKS INTRODUCTION 2 INTRO THE POST TEAM About the series REPORTERS : Amy Herdy housands of women have been sexually assaulted in the United [email protected] States military. Thousands more have been abused by their military husbands or boyfriends. And then they are victimized Miles Moffeit T again. This time, the women are betrayed by the military itself. They [email protected] PART are discouraged from reporting the crimes. Pressured to go easy on PHOTOGRAPHERS : their attackers. Denied protection. Frustrated by a justice system that Kathryn Scott Osler readily shields offenders from criminal punishment. 1 Helen H. Richardson The women suffer for it. Some cannot talk about what happened. They were killed by men whose violence was allowed to escalate. Other RESEARCHERS : Barbara Hudson, Sue Peterson victims struggle with anger over a trusted system that betrayed them. The Denver Post spent nine months investigating how the military PART handles sexual-assault and domestic-violence complaints. The stories, BETRAYAL IN THE RANKS originally published as a three-part series (Nov. 16-18, 2003), detail 2 Copyright©2004 The Denver Post, the newspaper’s findings that military commanders routinely fail to 1560 Broadway, Denver, CO 80202. prosecute those accused of such crimes. The Post also found the vic- tims often are left vulnerable to retaliation and even threats against All rights reserved. No part of this their lives because of a lack of victim advocates. More than 60 women Digital Newsbook may be used or told The Post stories of being beaten or raped while in the military. PART reproduced in any manner without Most never found justice. written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied 3 in articles or reviews. CONTENTS ON THE WEB INTRODUCTION 1 8 Rape victim thinks of child PROFILES ‘as gift’ You can find a multimedia PART ONE 3 presentation, audio/video portraits of the victims, documents from 8 For crime victims, punishment PROFILES 40 their cases, and interviews with 8 [GRAPHIC] Army sex offenders: 8 Coping with anguish and the reporters at: how cases were handled anger www.denverpost.com 8 Trauma lingers in victim’s life RESOURCES 58 RESOURC PART TWO 19 8 Learn more about sexual DIGITAL NEWSBOOKS 8 Home front assault and domestic violence This Digital Newsbook was ES 8 [GRAPHIC] Army domestic 8 About the numbers designed and produced for The violence offenders: how cases Post at the Kent State University were handled SURVEY 61 Institute for CyberInformation. 8 ‘I felt the military abandoned 8 Please let us know what you More information about this SURVEY me’ think about this series and the project can be found at: Digital Newsbook concept. www.ici.kent.edu PART THREE 33 DESIGNERS: 8 Military’s response to rapes, Roger Fidler, Rekha Sharma domestic abuse falls short Close Print Back 7 DIGITAL NEWSBOOK 8 Contents Search View BETRAYAL IN THE RANKS INTRO A DENVER POST SPECIAL REPORT: PART ONE Women who were raped while serving in the military say they were isolated and blamed for the attacks, while the system they turned to for PART help has treated the men who assaulted them far more humanely. 1 For crime victims, punishment PART arine Joseph Holguin sank to the floor, hugged 2 Mhis knees and told the polygraph examiner that fellow lance corporal Sally Fictum had said no. Accused of raping Fictum, Hol- PART guin had maintained in previous interviews that the act was con- 3 sensual. But he changed his story twice after the polygraph results showed deception. “Holguin stated he continued PROFILES through with the act ... although she had told him to stop, because he felt ‘things had gone too far to stop,”’ an investigator wrote in an SUSAN ARMENTA Aug. 11, 1993, report. “Holguin ◆ stated he had made a mistake.” “I know the way the military structure is; RESOURC Holguin was charged with rape. it will happen to young people coming in. … I want people By October, however, his com- not to be like me. I want those girls to come forward. I know mander dropped the criminal it’s going to hurt them so much more if they don’t.” case, using discretionary power ES granted under military law. For more of Armenta’s story, see Page 45 8 A retired Marine attorney who reviewed the examination results commanders humiliated her and have to be ruined before the mili- for The Denver Post said: “Based deprived her of sexual-trauma tary listens?” asked Fictum, who SURVEY on the documents I’ve reviewed, counseling. She also was inves- left the Marines after attempting they let a rapist walk.” tigated for lying, even after Hol- suicide later that year. The 19-year-old Fictum faced guin’s admissions. Parallels to Fictum’s case her own punishment. She said her “How many young ladies’ lives emerged last February when Close Print Back 7 DIGITAL NEWSBOOK 8 Contents Search View THE DENVER POST ©2004 BETRAYAL IN THE RANKS PART ONE 4 “The military system is like a get-out-of-jail-free card.” INTRO — Jennifer Bier, a Colorado Springs therapist who has counseled military victims dozens of U.S. Air Force Acad- reporting her sexual assault. “I nearly 18 percent, according to emy cadets stepped forward to was betrayed.” a federal survey in 2000. During report that they faced punish- The Post’s interviews and an congressional hearings in 1991, PART ment, attacks on their character analysis of records found: witnesses estimated that up to and intimidation after reporting 200,000 women had been sexually 1 sexual assault, while their attack- ■ Leniency toward sexual- assaulted by servicemen. ers escaped criminal charges. assault crimes is routine. Over Military officials said the trou- the past 10 years, twice as many ■ Victims lack support ser- bles were limited to the Colorado accused Army sex offenders were vices, and many are left vulnerable Springs school. given administrative punishment to pressure and intimidation from PART But a nine-month investigation as were court-martialed. In the commanders and peers. Despite by The Post found that the acad- civilian world, four of five people a 1994 congressional mandate to 2 emy scandal is part of a deeper arrested for rape are prosecuted. establish victim advocacy pro- problem. Nearly 5,000 accused sex offend- grams, the Department of Defense All the armed forces have mis- ers in the military, including rap- has a shortage of advocates to help handled sexual-assault cases by ists, have avoided prosecution, safeguard women and navigate the discouraging victims from pur- and the possibility of prison time, military’s bureaucracy. PART suing complaints, conducting since 1992, according to Army flawed investigations and depriv- records. The Air Force released ■ These problems take a human 3 ing victims of support services, only limited data, and the Navy toll. Dozens of veterans told The according to interviews with mili- and Marines gave out none. But Post that being assaulted ruined tary women and an examination civilian victim advocates say the their careers and sent them down a of records. trends are similar. destructive path, including addic- PROFILES Military officers often have “The military system is like tions and suicide attempts. Many ignored or hidden problems a get-out-of-jail-free card,” said carry the scars for life. “When and findings related to sexual Jennifer Bier, a Colorado Springs I looked at the American flag, I assaults. therapist who has counseled mili- used to see red, white and blue,” The obstacles to pursuing jus- tary victims. said Marian Hood, a veteran who tice are wrenching, more than 50 said she was gang-raped. “Now, all RESOURC sexual-assault victims told The ■ Rape is widespread in the I see is blood.” Post. Many fear retaliation, dam- armed forces, where more than age to their careers and being 200,000 women serve. Sketchy The Post also found that the portrayed as disloyal. And those military record-keeping makes it military fails victims of another ES who do report are often punished, impossible to quantify. The Penta- abuse — domestic violence. Sol- intimidated, ostracized or told gon puts the percentage of women diers who beat their wives or girl- they are crazy by their superiors. raped in single digits, yet two friends usually avoid jail. “These people were supposed Department of Veterans Affairs To investigate the military SURVEY to be my family,” said Michelle surveys in the past decade found 21 justice system, The Post inter- Swanson, an Army intelligence percent and 30 percent of women viewed victims, reviewed thou- specialist who said she was dis- reported a rape or attempted rape. sands of documents, including couraged by a supervisor from The comparable civilian figure is court records, databases, medical Close Print Back 7 DIGITAL NEWSBOOK 8 Contents Search View THE DENVER POST ©2004 BETRAYAL IN THE RANKS PART ONE 5 records and Defense Department to problems and under constant consistent evidence that one INTRO memos. review. exists. The newspaper also spoke with “It is a bit premature to say that During the past 13 years, the two dozen Veterans Affairs sex- we believe that changes need to be military has grappled with sexual- ual-trauma counselors across the made throughout the Services in assault scandals — from the 1991 country, who characterized the the handling of reports of sexual Tailhook convention to the 1996 women’s stories as credible and assault,” the Pentagon statement Aberdeen Proving Ground inves- PART part of a disturbing pattern.
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