Sen. Martha McSally says she was raped while serving in the military
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 6 at 4:28 PM Sen. Martha McSally revealed Wednesday that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, telling a Senate Armed Services subcommittee that she shares “the disgust of the failures of the military system and many commanders who failed in their responsibilities.
McSally told the panel that she blamed herself, was “ashamed and confused,” and felt powerless about what happened to her. Wednesday’s hearing of the Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Personnel was not the first time that McSally had spoken out about her own experience being sexually assaulted. Last year, while running for Senate, McSally revealed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that she had been pressured by her high school athletic coach into having sex with him when she was 17.
There were a total of 6,769 sexual assaults reported in the U.S. military during the last fiscal year, the Pentagon said in a report in April. The figure represents a 10 percent increase from the previous year. She argued that commanding officers must not be removed from decision-making responsibility in handling sexual assault allegations.
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