{"id":38194,"date":"2013-05-08T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pentagon_study_finds_sharp_rise_in_military_sexual_assaults\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:15:11","slug":"pentagon_study_finds_sharp_rise_in_military_sexual_assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38194","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Pentagon Study Finds Sharp Rise in Military Sexual Assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem of sexual assault in the military leapt to the forefront in Washington on Tuesday as the Pentagon released a survey estimating that 26,000 people in the armed forces were sexually assaulted last year, up from 19,000 in 2010, and an angry President Obama and Congress demanded action.<\/p>\n<p>The study, based on a confidential survey sent to 108,000 active-duty service members, was released two days after the officer in charge of sexual assault prevention programs for the Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery for grabbing a woman\u2019s breasts and buttocks in an Arlington, Va., parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>At a White House news conference, Mr. Obama expressed exasperation with the Pentagon\u2019s attempts to bring sexual assault under control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/08\/us\/politics\/pentagon-study-sees-sharp-rise-in-sexual-assaults.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem of sexual assault in the military leapt to the forefront in Washington on Tuesday as the Pentagon released a survey estimating that 26,000 people in the armed forces were sexually assaulted last year, up from 19,000 in 2010,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38194\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,143,168,114,125,112,34,124,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-men","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}