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On the recordApril 4, 2017
if I were in the position of a young midshipman who had been sexually assaulted and knew that they were going to face retribution by their peers or maybe by others at the academy, and that it was likely that nothing would happen to the perpetrator, I would not report.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins expresses concern about the low reporting of sexual assaults among midshipmen.

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