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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Rebekah Havrilla was a sergeant in the US Army back in 2007 serving in Eastern Afghanistan. She says she was constantly harassed by her team leader and then raped by a fellow sergeant.
"He pretty much said, 'You're not leaving until I get what I want.' Pushed me down on the bed and used his body weight to hold me down and proceeded to rape me," Havrilla said.
More than a dozen women and two men are seeking compensation after claiming they were raped, assaulted and harassed while serving in the US Armed Forces.
They accuse Mr Gates and Mr Rumsfeld for failing "to take reasonable steps to prevent plaintiffs from being repeatedly raped, sexually assaulted and sexually harassed by federal military personnel".
According to her adoptive mother, Mrs. Mary Lauterbach, LCpl. Lauterbach was preparing to testify that she was raped by a fellow Marine. Mrs. Lauterbach told police that her daughter "claimed she had been raped by a senior Marine at her command, and that the investigation had gone sour."
Originally posted by namine
reply to post by Stop-loss!
Or maybe men should learn not to behave like animals? Why blame the victims?
Women shouldn't need to defend themselves against their own comrades.
Originally posted by Stop-loss!
I apologize if I have gotten you butt-hurt or offended in any way. There are some prevent sexual abuse classes that we were forced to take. Had none of these rapes happened then just maybe they wouldn't be victims in the first place.
Originally posted by namine
reply to post by WhizPhiz
They are indeed animals. Assaulting your own comrades is never effective to the cause. There's no excuse for it.
It sounds to me like you are blaming them for being victims. It's their fault for not being educated enough to prevent it? Rape is something vile and forceful that happens to you, and of no fault of your own other than expecting those around you to behave like decent human beings. If sexual abuse didn't happen then just maybe "prevent sexual abuse classes" wouldn't exist in the first place. You see, the crime starts with the offense, so if anything it would appear we need classes to teach these men how NOT to behave like animals.
'A men's rights group has called for mandatory paternity testing of all babies after government figures revealed almost 600 instances of men compelled to financially support children they did not father. Since changes to child support laws four years ago, there had been 586 cases of men successfully using DNA testing to show they were not biologically related to children they had been financially supporting, the federal government has revealed to The Australian. In the overwhelming majority of these cases, the courts have not forced mothers to pay back the money they have received. Of the 586 cases, only 74 mothers have been told to pay back the money. Those reparations total in excess of $533,000.'
Originally posted by WhizPhiz
reply to post by namine
Soldiers are made to fight and kill, they've chosen to walk a dark path full of blood shed and hate. It's not hard to see most of them have mental issues and are just flat out psychopaths some times. They are animals, and they are trained to be that way. They are too ineffective otherwise.
Originally posted by namine
reply to post by Stop-loss!
I never said women are the only victims in this world. It just so happens that in the OP (which is what we're meant to be discussing?), men were the perpertators and the majority of the victims were women. I'm interested to know what you think of said men conducting these rapes? If you think it's unacceptable then we'd agree on something.