San Diego Mayor Bob Filner
Every story of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner being a sexual predator is disgusting, it should go without saying. But this may be the grossest: Filner used an organization intended to support military sexual assault survivors as a way to
identify potential targets for his own abuse. There are:
[...] at least eight female veterans and members of the National Women's Veterans Association of America (NWVAA) in San Diego who have made accusations against the mayor. Almost all of the women were victims of sexual assault while they were in the military.
The women, like Fernandez, say the former chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee used his significant power and credentials to access military sexual assault survivors, who they say are less likely to complain.
One of the women, a retired Air Force master sergeant,
[...] said she was raped three times during her service. Like many victims of military sexual assault and rape, she suffered in silence, believing the system would never support her.
Which she was, unfortunately,
almost certainly right about. Then, after having been raped repeatedly during her time in the military, she started speaking out—only to have that used to target her for harassment by a congressman. No kidding the system didn't support her.