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Military Sexual Assault should NOT be tolerated, neither should FALSE ALLEGATIONS (resulting in countless wrongful convictions). If you seek FAIR and EQUAL JUSTICE for both the accuser and the accused (like we do), you may want to consider reading this entire article.

"In the U.S. military, the Defense Department Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Office (SAPRO) issues an annual report on completed cases of sexual assault. Numbers of actual cases keep escalating every year, but the SAPRO reports also have demonstrated the need for fairness and due process, not automatic assumptions that accusations alone are enough to prove guilt.

From Fiscal Year 2011 to Fiscal Year 2015, approximately 17 percent of actual cases of sexual assault in the military were unsubstantiated, usually because of a lack of evidence. This remarkably-consistent 17 percent of unsubstantiated cases (almost 1 in 5) should be cause for concern, but the Pentagon has done nothing about it. Sexual assaults are serious and wrong, but it is also wrong to file or act upon accusations that cannot withstand objective investigation.

On matters of sexual assault, the 2016 Republican National Platform calls for “fairness and due process rights for all concerned, both the accuser and the accused.” (p. 44) This means that well-trained legal adversaries should present and cross-examine evidence on an equal basis, in order to discover truth and achieve the primary goal: justice for everyone concerned".

https://stream.org/sexual-assault-accusations-and-the-presidential-election-the-need-for-truth-and-justice/