Soldier charged with videotaping at least 12 women in West Point bathroom,26000 assaults

[enhanced_deficit]

WASHINGTON – An Army sergeant has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including in a bathroom.
The Army said Wednesday that Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon is facing charges of dereliction of duty, mistreatment, entering a women's bathroom without notice, and taking and possessing inappropriate photos and videos of women who were naked or in various states of undress.

The case is the latest in an embarrassing series of arrests and incidents of sexual misconduct across the military, and comes on the heels of a Pentagon report that estimated that as many as 26,000 sservice members may have been sexually assaulted last year.

In recent weeks, military leaders have expressed anger and shame over their failure to stem the escalating sexual abuse across the services.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/22/soldier-charged-with-taking-videos-at-least-12-women-in-west-point-bathroom

Don't know how many women are serving in military but 26,000 sexual assaults in a year seems like very high number.
(http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/22/soldier-charged-with-taking-videos-at-least-12-women-in-west-point-bathroom/#ixzz2U40vEclg)

[tod evans]

Being a peeping-Tom used to get your ass beat and a dishonorable discharge...

Wonder what with all the fancy new laws will happen to this guy?

[juleswin]

The sentence in bold makes no sense, its seems like a number is missing from it. If this is true, then the US military is quickly developing a reputation of sexual criminality. Me wonders if it has anything to with the lowering of standards for acceptance into the military.

[enhanced_deficit]

Subject line of thread got truncated, two seaparate issues. Have fixed bold sentence.



According to the Army, McClendon was relieved of his duties on May 17, 2012, and was ordered to have no contact with cadets and was barred from entering cadet areas on the post. The yearlong delay in formally charging McClendon was because of the complexities of the case and the effort to recover the forensic evidence.
McClendon, who is from Blakely, Ga., is doing military duty at Fort Drum, and is not being held in a jail.





Tod this may answer your question.

[Zippyjuan]

Reading the headline I was prepared to try to calculate how many encounters a day this guy would have needed to have commited 26,000 assaults. A bit more info on the figure:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lawmakers-act-curb-military-sexual-assaults-article-1.1352004

The report showed the number of sexual assaults actually reported by members of the military rose 6 percent to 3,374 in 2012. But a survey of personnel who were not required to reveal their identities showed the number of service members actually assaulted could be as high as 26,000. That figure is an increase over the 19,000 estimated assaults in 2011.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lawmakers-act-curb-military-sexual-assaults-article-1.1352004#ixzz2U46eTPoD

Assaults would not necessarily all be male on female either.

The hypothetical One Guy Numbers: If it was one guy and he was 23 and started when he was 13, that is 2,600 a year or about seven a day for ten years.

[pcosmar]

Reading the headline I was prepared to try to calculate how many encounters a day this guy would have needed to have commited 26,000 assaults. A bit more info on the figure:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lawmakers-act-curb-military-sexual-assaults-article-1.1352004


Assaults would not necessarily all be male on female either.

The hypothetical One Guy Numbers: If it was one guy and he was 23 and started when he was 13, that is 2,600 a year or about seven a day for ten years.

Reading Is Fundamental

Not just one guy.

The case is the latest in an embarrassing series of arrests and incidents of sexual misconduct across the military

[Aeroneous]

Being a peeping-Tom used to get your ass beat and a dishonorable discharge...

Wonder what with all the fancy new laws will happen to this guy?

Dishonorable and prison if he were Air Force. The Army tends to be more lenient, though.

[Ranger29860]

Dishonorable and prison if he were Air Force. The Army tends to be more lenient, though.

Thats the problem. Ive seen plenty of cases where sexual assault victims would get shamed out of the military (army) while the perpetrators got a slap on the wrist and a pat on the back.

[Zippyjuan]

Reading Is Fundamental

Not just one guy.

Yes. The headline made it SOUND like it was one guy was arrested for 26,000 assaults in addition to being a peeping tom.

[enhanced_deficit]

Reading the headline I was prepared to try to calculate how many encounters a day this guy would have needed to have commited 26,000 assaults. A bit more info on the figure:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lawmakers-act-curb-military-sexual-assaults-article-1.1352004


Assaults would not necessarily all be male on female either.

The hypothetical One Guy Numbers: If it was one guy and he was 23 and started when he was 13, that is 2,600 a year or about seven a day for ten years.

Because of truncated title, at least we got some exercise of math lol

"Could be" in this case can be read as "most likely would be" given nature of such issues.