Source: Washington Post
In the real world, get accused of sexual assault, go directly to jail without collecting 200 dollars.
In the U.S. Naval Academy, you get a smack on the hand and simply sent home.
With striking regularity, sexual-assault charges at the U.S. Naval Academy are dismissed without trial and the suspects are instead expelled from school, according to an analysis of hundreds of pages of Navy documents.
Of 56 midshipmen accused of sexual assault since 1998, two have been convicted, and one of those was in a civilian court, a review by The Washington Post of Navy incident reports, case summaries and data released by the school shows.
In virtually every other case in which investigators found evidence of sexual assault, military prosecutors--and, in one instance, civilian officials--cut deals forcing the alleged offender to leave the academy without facing trial and without having a criminal record.
Cover-ups in the military even when someone possibly gets raped? You have to love the high sense of "honor" and "justice" in that.
Tags: [U.S. Naval Academy], [sexual-assault charges dismissed], [military cover-up]
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