Study: More sex assaults occur than reported

Study: More sex assaults occur than reported
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 5:56:35 EDT

The director of the Pentagon’s program to prevent and respond to sexual assault in the ranks is not surprised at a government investigation’s conclusion that far more rapes and other sexual assaults are being committed than reports indicate.

It’s one of the nation’s most underreported crimes, period, said Kaye Whitley, director of the Defense Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.

But that doesn’t mean the data the Pentagon has been collecting since 2004 are meaningless.

“It does tell us something,” Whitley said in an Aug. 27 interview at her Rosslyn, Va., office.

“It does tell us they’re occurring, it tells us where, it tells us who. So it’s a start.


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