What do you think of sex offenders being separated from the army ASAP?
SHARP
Discharge
Sexual Assault
We had a Soldier in my old Unit back in fort hood who was a registered Sex Offender. We found out just by doing random checks on people, and this Soldiers picture was of him in his DCU uniform as a background photo on the registered sex offenders list. We notified the chain of command and it was kind of a in house type thing, then 6 months later I PCS'ed. I dunno if he is still in the Army now or not.
Can someone provide a link? It's not as easy as it sounds. There are people who have had sexual offense related convictions and yet they are not on a sex offender list. Good luck finding all of those SMs. Some of those service members in the category committed their offenses before or after they joined the military. Will this be retroactive? People on the sex offender list should have not been allowed to join the service but who knows. Also, you must recognized that in some states sexual offenses involve public urination or involving a prostitute which are not even sexual assault. The Army like to some up new regs yet they fail to say how it should be implemented for it falls on the shoulders of the commander but that is how we screwed so bad with sexual assaults in the first place I think.
SSG H,
I understand where you are coming from but it is both a recruiting and retention issue, as SM have been allowed to come in with prior offenses, and SM's with convictions via military or civilian have been allowed to stay as well. That is part of the discussion that LT P was referring to, I as a former recruiter and senior NCO MP am greatly disgusted that either were ever allowed to take place. I have worked on numerous cases, and everyone resulted in either jail time and/or discharge from the military, so that is where my initial confusion for the whole message has been derived from. Thanks for the direct title message for further guidance and discussion.
One Marine I served with was classified as a Sex Offender because of pure stupidity. He had been drinking and was asleep in the barracks, and a girl that he knew from around the base came knocking on his door, she told him that she needed to call for a ride. He thought the girl was over 18 but she had a fake ID.He went back to bed while she "waited" for her ride, and she jumped into his bed and had sex with him. The barracks Duty went into the room and busted him. They found out what happened the MPs came, and he was arrested when they figured out her age, and since 29 Palms is a shared jurisdiction, he also was processed by the state of California. Originally they were going to charge him with felony statutory rape, but after the evidence of her actions came into view the most they could get him for was misdemeanor. He still has to register as a sex offender when he moves to a new area.
We have to start somewhere when it comes to good ideas, it wasn't that long ago when military members who were charged with domestic violence were finally prevented from having/using weapons.
Ma'am,
To be honest in my 27 years in the MP Corps, I actually only dealt with or saw reports on maybe 20 rape/sexual assault cases, not saying they didn't happen or exist, but in my personal experience for job related cases, the numbers were low. There may have been the issue of non-reporting, but all the ones I actually responded to were very distraught and hysterical, so I can't never fathom why someone wouldn't report it if it happened to them.
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