Service Academies Report Highest Number of Sexual Assaults Ever
Students at the U.S. service academies filed 131 reports of sexual assault during the 2020-2021 academic year -- the highest number since the Defense Department began closely tracking the problem in 2006.
The reports represent a 7.4% increase from the 2018-2019 academic year, which was the last time students spent a full year in class before the pandemic.
It marks a 43% increase from 2019-2020, when students were sent home in March to protect them from contracting COVID-19.
While the increases are “troubling,” they still only represent a fraction of sexual assaults at the academies, according to data released Thursday by the DoD's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/02/18/service-academies-report-highest-number-of-sexual-assaults-ever.html