And what makes it even worse is this is at our nations premiere hatchery for Naval Officers. This is sickening to read. As a victim is forced to endure hours of questions that have no relevance on why someone else raped her.
But, like all incidences of rape being reported the victim is accused of lying, if not out right then by insinuation as the case is here.
What a woman wears or does not wear has no bearing on the incident.
Apparently whomever is sitting judgement hasn't changed their calendar page since 1953.
She was too drained to go on, she said.
After four days and more than 20 hours of relentless questions about her medical history and motivations, her dance moves and underwear,the 21-year-old midshipman who has accused three former Naval Academy football players of raping her pleaded on Saturday for a day off from testimony. It was granted by the hearing’s presiding officer but not before the request triggered more skepticism from defense attorneys, who said the young woman was faking her exhaustion.
“What was she going to be doing anyway?” asked Ronald “Chip” Herrington, one of the defense attorneys for Eric Graham, a 21-year-old senior from Eight Mile, Ala. “Something more strenuous than sitting in a chair? We don’t concede there’s been any stress involved.”
At a time when the military is under attack for how it handles sexual violence in its ranks, the proceedings underway at the Washington Navy Yard offer a case study on why women in uniform are so reluctant to report sexual assaults. The hearing highlights significant disparities between the way the military and civilian world treat accusers and the accused.