Washington Times: Epidemie von Falschbeschuldigungen sexueller Gewalt im US-Militär

Auch diverse deutsche Medien berichteten über den angeblich enormen Anstieg von sexuellen Übergriffen im US-Militär. Auf Berichterstattung über den enormen Anstieg von Falschbeschuldigungen werden wir in den deutschen Medien hingegen lange warten können. Ehrlicher ist die Washington Times:

False complaints of sexual abuse in the military are rising at a faster rate than overall reports of sexual assault, a trend that could harm combat readiness, analysts say.

Virtually all media attention on a Pentagon report last week focused on an increase in service members’ claims of sexual abuse in an anonymous survey, but unmentioned were statistics showing that a significant percentage of such actually investigated cases were baseless.

From 2009 to 2012, the number of sexual abuse reports rose from 3,244 to 3,374 — a 4 percent increase.

During the same period, the number of what the Pentagon calls “unfounded allegations” based on completed investigations of those reports rose from 331 to 444 — a 35 percent increase.

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