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On the recordDecember 7, 2011
One of them had 6 months of reduction in pay; one of them got demoted, one of them did not; but neither of them served any time for having admitted that they had raped her. They got what was called nonjudicial punishment. What a joke that in this country we give a unit commander the authority to be judge and jury and then not even have these individuals who commit these violent crimes have to pay anything. It doesn't go on a record; there is no sexual assault database. That's the way we've been running the military, and that must stop.
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Jackie Speier
Democratic · California
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