For Samantha Jarrett, being called a bitch and a whore by fellow sailors she had counted as friends and brothers in arms was the least of her problems, after she reported being raped while serving in the US navy.
She also lost a career in the military that she had assumed, when she fulfilled her dream by joining at 19, would last a lifetime. It was over by the time she was 22.
Now she is speaking out.
Jarrett appears under a pseudonym in a report released on Monday by the campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report details what the federal government has already admitted is a high level of retaliation against those who report being sexually assaulted by fellow service members.
But while HRW pursued a policy of anonymity for those featured in the report, Jarrett decided to put her name “out there”, she told the Guardian, to show she was not ashamed.
“I’ve been quiet about this long enough,” she said. And, she added, her identity had quickly emerged after she reported to her superiors – confidentially, she had thought – her recollection of what had happened. Full story...
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She also lost a career in the military that she had assumed, when she fulfilled her dream by joining at 19, would last a lifetime. It was over by the time she was 22.
Now she is speaking out.
Jarrett appears under a pseudonym in a report released on Monday by the campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report details what the federal government has already admitted is a high level of retaliation against those who report being sexually assaulted by fellow service members.
But while HRW pursued a policy of anonymity for those featured in the report, Jarrett decided to put her name “out there”, she told the Guardian, to show she was not ashamed.
“I’ve been quiet about this long enough,” she said. And, she added, her identity had quickly emerged after she reported to her superiors – confidentially, she had thought – her recollection of what had happened. Full story...
Read also: US: military sexual assault
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