Posted on Jan 4, 2016
Pentagon: Hundreds of Military Kids Sexually Abused Annually
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RP Members why is this happening in our military services?
Cpl. Aaron C. Masa became fast friends with a fellow Marine during field training in North Carolina. But behind his buddy's back, Masa was sexually abusing his friend's 3-year-old stepdaughter. He also took sexually explicit photos of the girl and the Marine's infant daughter.
A military judge convicted Masa last year of sexual abuse of a child and production of child pornography, according to court records and other documents detailing the case. Under the terms of a pretrial agreement, he pleaded guilty and received 30 years in prison.
In total, incidents involving sexual assault in which the children of service members are victims occur hundreds of times each year, data the Defense Department provided exclusively to The Associated Press show. The abuse is committed most often by male enlisted troops, according to the data, followed by family members.
Cpl. Aaron C. Masa became fast friends with a fellow Marine during field training in North Carolina. But behind his buddy's back, Masa was sexually abusing his friend's 3-year-old stepdaughter. He also took sexually explicit photos of the girl and the Marine's infant daughter.
A military judge convicted Masa last year of sexual abuse of a child and production of child pornography, according to court records and other documents detailing the case. Under the terms of a pretrial agreement, he pleaded guilty and received 30 years in prison.
In total, incidents involving sexual assault in which the children of service members are victims occur hundreds of times each year, data the Defense Department provided exclusively to The Associated Press show. The abuse is committed most often by male enlisted troops, according to the data, followed by family members.
Pentagon: Hundreds of Military Kids Sexually Abused Annually
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Its sickening to see that happening to any child. In the military it looks worse because we are a smaller community overall. Its a very horrible problem and makes me sick to even know that its going on. Those child molesters are the ones really deserving of the death penalty, right up there with serial killers and rapists.
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I wonder if anyone has any advice for dealing with having been abused outside of the United States, by an embassy staff member two decades ago. It took me years into adulthood to tell my father what happened, and am not troubled terribly by a need for "justice" in this, as all I know was that his name was "Jim" and it happened in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1995 or 1996.
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these actions caused by a small few makes the bigger of the military family look bad and it makes the military look like a terrible organization to be in. It isnt seen but there are probs way more cases that arent even discovered or reported.we need to make a way for the abused to voice out what is happening in a safe way so the military can take of the problem and get the child away from the person that is harming them.This kind of thing can prevent the military family from growing and can cause permanent phsycological damage on the child creating mentally unstable people for the world to help.
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