El Mudo
03-06-2003, 08:37 PM
From AOL..
WASHINGTON (March 6) - Air Force Secretary James Roche said Thursday that the service needs to move quickly to fix a climate that has led to at least 54 alleged cases of rape and sexual assault at the Air Force Academy.
''We have cadets who have misused power, that have done things we cannot tolerate,'' Roche said. ''We have to deal with a climate that has allowed this to happen.''
Investigators who spent two weeks at the academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., identified 54 cases and met with at least six alleged victims, although there are probably many more who will not come forward, Roche said.
''What frightens me most is the climate that has affected so many others who have not come forward,'' he said. ''While we have seen, whatever the number is, 25, 50, there are probably a hundred more that we do not see.''
Roche did not say during what time period the alleged assaults occurred. However, Cari Davis, executive director of TESSA, the main women's crisis center in Colorado Springs, said her group had dealt with 22 sexual assault complaints involving cadets over the past 15 years.
Wow....they go on to quote a Senator who says this could be worse than Tailhook...exactly at the moment the military needs a lot of support...
Trying to stop talking like a grizzled 1890's prospector..
WASHINGTON (March 6) - Air Force Secretary James Roche said Thursday that the service needs to move quickly to fix a climate that has led to at least 54 alleged cases of rape and sexual assault at the Air Force Academy.
''We have cadets who have misused power, that have done things we cannot tolerate,'' Roche said. ''We have to deal with a climate that has allowed this to happen.''
Investigators who spent two weeks at the academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., identified 54 cases and met with at least six alleged victims, although there are probably many more who will not come forward, Roche said.
''What frightens me most is the climate that has affected so many others who have not come forward,'' he said. ''While we have seen, whatever the number is, 25, 50, there are probably a hundred more that we do not see.''
Roche did not say during what time period the alleged assaults occurred. However, Cari Davis, executive director of TESSA, the main women's crisis center in Colorado Springs, said her group had dealt with 22 sexual assault complaints involving cadets over the past 15 years.
Wow....they go on to quote a Senator who says this could be worse than Tailhook...exactly at the moment the military needs a lot of support...
Trying to stop talking like a grizzled 1890's prospector..