Air Force refuses confidentiality for victims.(Newswatch)

Despite being shaken to the core by the scandal in which dozens of female cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs told of being sexually assaulted there, new leaders plan to adopt a policy that probably would deter them from reporting assaults.

* Academy leaders have decided that assault claims will no longer be kept confidential, supposedly so they can be more easily investigated.

This is despite a report by civilian investigators appointed by Congress saying that denying confidentiality would discourage victims from reporting assaults. Leaders blamed a confidentiality requirement for preventing them from knowing the extent of the sexual assaults at the academy.

* Preliminary analysis of results of a May survey of 579 female cadets by the Department of Defense showed almost a quarter of those graduating this year were sexually assaulted there, and nearly 12% said it was attempted rape. Nearly 69% of the females there said they had been sexually harassed, according to the Associated Press.

The cadets said they reported only 33 of the 177 incidents; 46% of them who reported incidents said they had suffered reprisals for their report.

Why didn't the other cadets report the assaults?

- About 45% feared nothing would be done about them.