Australian commission: Military cadets raped as initiation

[niyad]

Australian commission: Military cadets raped as initiation


Former Aussie military cadets testify about being raped by staff and peers
Witness "terrified" when dragged from the showers at age 16

(CNN)Teenage recruits were raped by staff and forced to rape each other as part of initiation practices in the Australian military going back to 1960, a public inquiry heard on Tuesday.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse is hearing evidence from men and women who say they were sexually abused when they were as young as 15, in certain divisions of the Australian defense force.

This commission is focusing on alleged abuse at the naval training center HMAS Leeuwin in Western Australia and the army apprentice school Balcombe in Victoria during the 1960s, '70s and '80s and also among cadets with the Australian defense force since 2000. In total, 111 victims came forward to report abuse. More than a dozen of them will give evidence to the inquiry in Sydney, which continues until July 1.

"On multiple occasions, I was snatched from my bed in the middle of the night by older recruits and dragged to a sports oval," said one male witness who wasn't named.
The witness said he was forced to rape other recruits, and was raped himself by older recruits and staff. "The environment made it useless to resist," he said. "One could stand only so much abuse before realizing that saying 'no' was pointless. After a while compliance and getting it over and done with seemed the best solution."

Many survivors say that when they reported the abuse, they were ignored, punished, or told it was "a rite of passage" in their initiation period.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/asia/australia-military-abuse/

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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was set up in 2013.

Thousands of people have made submissions since it began its work investigating the abuse of children in institutions across Australia.

Much of its recent investigation has focused on abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the 1970s and '80s.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36593815

http://en.news-4-u.ru/australia-is-investigating-dozens-of-rapes-of-pupils-of-cadet-schools.html

[Aristus]

1. This just in: Australian wildlife no longer the most dangerous things in Australia.

Jesus, what a berserk group of monsters...

[niyad]

2. along with the commission's investigations into the rapes and assaults on the cadets,

their other major inquiry has been into the pedophiles of the roman catholic church.

as you said, monsters.