Military Seeks to Limit Congress on Fixing Child Sex Assault

"We can handle this on our own. It's a strategy that began months ago, after the Pentagon received AP's questions and well before officials understood the scope or severity of the problem." Bullshit. Where is this policy? I have heard nothing through SAPR or SHARP channels about any type of fix. They just don't want to take the effort to fix the issue - the issue is there's no policy about child on child sexual assault on military bases. They defer to DoJ which is usually local LE. They don't usually prosecute.

The military needs to set up some type of policies or the education system in the DoD needs better policies to address this because there are none.

It also has to address the grey area that also exists with these where it's two juveniles who are close in age - say a 13 and 14 year old - have sex. Usually prosecutors don't go after those because there's really no point even though neither can consent. But when you have a child going around sexually assaulting other kids - like the first grader at a school on a base in Germany - and there is nobody taking control of it then what?

"U.S. military officials have sought to ward off congressional efforts to address child-on-child sexual assaults on bases"

~great..... what is congress going to do, make kids take SHARP classes now? From the article, it sounds like the military wants to try and fix itself before somebody makes things worse (ie, not fix it at all) with a one size fits all approach. But hell, whatever floats your boat so that some individuals can go back home and say "I did something about it."