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Air Force Academy agrees to shield victims.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
In a startling policy reversal, Air Force Secretary James Roche has agreed to give confidentiality to cadets who report being sexually assaulted at the Air Force Academy.
In September, a blue-ribbon civilian committee led by former U.S. Representative Tillie Fowler (R-Fla.) recommended that confidentiality would encourage cadets to report assaults, but the brass refused to budge until now.
The panel also sharply criticized the Air Force for ignoring reports from at least three groups of a serious problem at the academy since 1993. Its failure to act "helped create an environment in which sexual assault became a part of life at the Academy," the report said.
Facing its worst sex scandal ever--at least 142 cadets have reported being sexual assaulted over the last decade--the academy now seems to have gotten the message that business as usual ...
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