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It so many times and so many ways i thought about. At one point in time hanging myself from the flagpole was a song on me. Saying exactly what happened to make him feel bad. I was going to. Overdose on pain medication and sleeping medication. And just hope that id fall asleep in my body it would just shut down or something. When i went to the doctor i had been feeling sick and dizzy and i was aided and. They took my urine and they told me that i was pregnant it. Was like you know theres a life and there you know i may be a great wife will be better than mine and i got to make sure that so. She was very special. Sometimes. It takes a different kind of action to cause change to calm. And sometimes thats. A lawsuit. I grew up on military bases my dad was career army when i was a child when we answer the phone we just have to say colonel burks quarters and because of that i have as i have an understanding of the level of control that the military exercises that perhaps most in civilian life dont have. The fairness doctrine is a judicial doctrine that was developed by the Supreme Court that says if youre in the military you cannot sue for something that happens to you thats incidental your military service if you military doctors amputate the wrong limb youre out of luck you cannot sue for that for that harm thats been done to you so we filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of 16 men and women seeking to bring former secretary rumsfeld and secretary gates to justice. I heard about the lawsuit and decided to become a part of it. Because i never wanted another woman to go through what i would. Be a lawsuit alleges that they have overseen a system that has deprived the rape survivors of their Constitutional Rights specifically we allege that they deprived them of their substantive due process procedural due process equal protection and 1st amendment rights. I mean the sick to see everybody stories. How they kind of closely tied together everybodys story somehow has that its consistent that the military does to People Like Us all the things that they put in place are all pretty much intended to help women deal with being raped better thats what theyre about. And join the military halfway through my sphere of high school awning to serve my country and do new things and challenge myself in a different way. I was in the army about 7 or 8 years before anything ever happened to me. By another c. I. T. Agent who was senior to me. I was contacted by an agent with 4 riley c. Id who said they were investigating the suspect as a serial rapist who had raped several military Law Enforcement women and i thought there was no way that you know she wouldnt be convicted and i have a difficult time with anything thats not the fact that i had an almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry and hes probably doing the same thing right now. It was a female attempt on me aside and tell me that you know she had heard about my case and she thought she could talk to me as one female marine to another and she told me what he did was capitalize on an opportunity that you presented to him thats not the same thing as rape and you need to know that. Human after it happened they mean you know and i think with them and i tried having everybody advocate for me to not make me go because i just couldnt deal with seeing him so their solution to that was just to put him right in front of me as i see him the whole time so that i could know where he was and know that he wasnt able to do anything right in front of me and i remember thinking the entire time we were up on the hills and camp when i define him steeper. Theres no way out of it i mean if you think about it the only way out of it is like a suicide or a wall so thats those are your only 2 options suicide a wall or deal with it right now im just barely appreciating. Learning how to appreciate being a woman again as 11 years. And. Im trying to have fun with it not forcing myself to have fun. Im trying really hard not to cry but it just. You know and watching you girls having to. Go through it i mean it makes me want to explode being here and like knowing that me wanting to commit suicide im not alone me being hidden raped and not all everything the way that they treated me the way that they made me feel not alone and we have all you guys with all your knowledge and everything you guys are going to stand right you know its all sort of this instance. I think the woman who are coming forward in this lawsuit are very courageous they because theyre putting their names out there for criticism. Theyre putting their names out there to go down and his truth is they were the ones who got raped and theres one thing you want to go through life with. Today i stand in solidarity with the courageous women and men who serve in our Nations Armed forces the inspirational plaintiffs you see before you are a small handful of the 10s of thousands of troops and veterans whove been sexually brutalized by their fellow Service Members while defending our nation it is time to finally acknowledge that the military judicial system is broken when it comes to these cases my name is and in my case my command was unwilling to help me i went for help several times with other petty officers and i i was denied help even with other men saying please get her away from him and it was it was still out many. People were telling me dont go to the public dont let this get out because itll make the military look bad i really feel like my social responsibility to speak out about this issue especially considering my investigative experience and the fact that the military Justice System allows so many offenders to escape justice. Thanks for being willing to fill me in a little bit on some of the experiences i name is reaching and i served honorably in United States marine corps for 4 years playing miss corey choke and i served in the United States coast guard i was harassed and sexually assaulted i was administrative leave those charges no benefit for 9 and a half years of Service Women should not bear their burden that is not part of what we should have been doing to do our jobs for time a criminal activity were talking about a vicious. Attack that it is criminal it is an assault. Almost none of the Court Martial and all of the ones that do almost none of their them resulting convictions seems to me in all the time times that ive looked at these things and the command is the one who has so much discretion i think our advocate should actually be civilians ones that work in the military i think we should have actual units civilian units it absolutely tears in my inside to think that this has been going on for as long as its been going on and weve never addressed it all people in the military most know if you are a perpetrator of Sexual Assault against someone else military. Youre going to be held accountable. They all see themselves as dying swans in their dreams. But only one in the cells and will ever make it to the top. Theyre ready to give their lives for the chance to die on stage if only once. Not even broken wings can determine. For generations at the moment ski theater ballet sweat and tears on nazi. The fast enough blood for a syrian conflict mediation never has spoken with one voice but recently disagreements between russia and iran has become so still look good not even the leaders try to hide it as the program run its course or is the friction really a sign that its working. What politicians do. They put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Somehow wanted. To go right to be for the survival before 3 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters about how. Things should. This is a story about what happens austria stray bullets kills a young girl in the street. What happens to her family and daughters in florida you know my other daughter is buried in a cemetery meaning messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police. Need is a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pen this than him and what happens in court. Shocked shocked smar society we deal with we dont know shell share this truth. And to destroy unfortunately you. Will still love no children. And so cod and i found it tremendously frustrating when i would demonstrate that an offender had committed an offense and taking it to a commander and having a commander be the deciding authority you know i dont think commanders are capable of making. An object of decision i dont i do not think it should be in their hands so he was just seeking to do discretion away from yes absolutely congresswoman davis and i are both on the Armed Services committee there are a number of issues that youve raised that makes me want to go back and particularly take another look an emotional one individual basis what happens after a crime like that has been committed its a very difficult thing to go through and dont think i dont know i know. The fact that youre willing to tell me your stories firsthand makes it much easier for us to go back and just say you know these are policies that we have to change its a big its a big big deal if you do it you really find people like you who will stand up for us thank you so much for everything they do there was to me. Thank you again for your Service Thanks for your time mr speaker last year the military received over 3000 reports of Sexual Assault involving other members into service this week 17 better ins are saying that the military ignored their cases of Sexual Assault while they were on active duty to do. I am going to talk about the men corey chokmah who served in the coast guard from august 2005 to june 2007 she now suffers from p. T. S. D. And abnormal e. G. Did a nerve damage in her fake joke and later told the press its like they didnt care it wasnt important i wasnt important. Going to get mail. He was cross. There is my pay. This is. Effective october 20th 2009 my overall combined rating is 70 percent. Service connection for anxiety is denied Service Connection for displacement and bilateral bilateral placement is deny. Ill be right there. My face doesnt have any discs in it but thats what the x. Rays thats what dr karp those letters. Medical were rumors are true its. Nice to see you again and thank you for coming im going to play a short Public Service announcement and then we can entertain questions i think the prevention aspect of Sexual Assault goes back in some ways to Risk Reduction where what is Risk Reduction Risk Reduction are ideas like telling women to if theyre going to go somewhere together always have a buddy with them are there other examples of risk. I didnt im not familiar but thats out of my area of expertise. Well i want to continue where dr whitley left off you know looking at what our focus is and thats on prevention as well as as a response weve really done a very good job there and the credit goes to dr whitley and her staff that has been working this for the last 5 to 6 years i dont think the department of defense has has really yet embraced that they have a Sexual Assault problem that its not just an issue of the culture environment or that the people are at risk for Sexual Assault their system itself though just does not value the rights of victims and doesnt provide the medical protection you know i have heard the accusations as well that you know commanders are sweeping this under the carpet now what i would say to the people that have come forward to you is if you feel your commander is ignoring what you have have asked them to do if theyre not taking care of you within that chain of command you need to go to the d. O. D. That are part of the fence Inspector General g. A. O. General Accounting Office just did a study a report and guess what not one. One case of more than 2500 has been reviewed and investigated by the Inspector General and when asked about that the Inspector General said we have other higher priorities what what you really want is you want there to be a system akin to a civilian system where you go to the police and youre in the crime is prosecuted by an impartial judicial system as a commander you have no favorites you are equally to take care of every Single Person in your organization thats what commanders are all about these are human beings just like everybody else you cannot be impartial when you are already involved with people in other settings i would take exception with your characterization that the disposition of the case is based on the relationship between the commander. And he alleged perpetrator. Im going to speak to you with my former commanders had on there is absolutely no conflict of interest you do what the right thing is to do. d you have other avenues and those if you feel like you have not been taken care of adequately by your commander go up through your congressman or congresswoman and file a complaint that way you cannot you cant go to a congressman to be to obtain justice for being raped i mean imagine how silly that is imagine if you told civilians that oh geez sorry you were raped go talk to your congressman. You could Say Something to this guy who do you honestly. I dont think its affected his life it on. And people in my old squadron that ive talked to. They say theyve all seen the effect that its had on. Her. Because its a struggle every day thats clearly changed to i. Am really hoping that he falls off the coast guard but they never find him im really hoping for that like they fight for so poor mishap where he got chopped up by the proper. Big that would be great thered be an exciting day but i price over and. I hope this reaches them too you know i hope that somewhere someone sees my face you know wherever it is and goes. I know them and theyre talking about me. Because they know what they did you know and then although half the miter is the same friend they. Say we station with her. You know and then they cant be a secret anymore. So hopefully they have to deal with it too you know some way shape or. Most rapists. Repetitive criminals that its a kind of crime that has an obsessive quota she said people do it again and again so the tragedy of that is that every one of these guys who get so free will be doing it to other women again and again often for years. The average sex offender and your wife time has about 300 victims and the vast majority of sex offenders will never be caught a lot of civilians see it as being a military problem but it really is because 5 percent of reported offenders are convicted. So almost none of them wind up on the sex offender of history there is no military sex offender list that im aware of but if youre convicted in court a felony conviction us. Sex offense of a sex offense youre going to go on the National List for any sense of bad words were correct that is not the case it depends on what level conviction they got if they received over a year then thats considered a felony but a lot of these cases are pled down so that theyre not felonies the military doesnt like to prosecute people and keep. As felony convictions i often ask myself the question why wouldnt why would they stop and if theres nothing to stop them like incarceration or some other light major life change theyre going to continue. If you run that the sexual predator through the judicial system and then you get a slap on the hand all youve done is youve done the equivalent of the catch release program youve caught and youve educated now you released him back in the home town america he now knows a lot more about the Law Enforcement judicial system than he did when he 1st started which makes him a much more capable criminal a much more dangerous criminal they go on to literally prey on women and men in our neighborhoods across the United States i mean if we dont care about women or men in the military then we should care about women and men in our girls and boys in our neighborhoods back home. Were. The thing that bred my love than anything about this story was the young women. Who went in with such ideas and i want to serve my country i want to give back to see a Young Persons hope and idealism crushed in that brutal way i think we owe our young people love and that. Increasingly women are becoming some of the best trained professionals that we have in the military is a great soldiers and we cant afford to lose that. Can happen after that again. People deeply believe in their hearts to serve their country they should be given that chance with respect. You know its part of really harm american way even though we just are purple hearts because we were wounded in time or you know youre going to give us one you know for you to say maybe there should be written for women you. Are served and 3 who have survived it is your. We have a good army a good military but not a great one and this is the kind of issue that keeps our military from being great. We can view this as a shared challenges not just a womens issue its not just something that the military has to deal with but as a society were all in this together. Its our national duty. 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