15 recruiters fired over sex protection rules

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15 recruiters fired over sex protection rules
By James A. Gillaspy - Gannett News Service
Posted : Friday Sep 14, 2007 11:59:37 EDT

Indiana National Guard officials have fired 15 recruiters for breaking new rules created to protect young women from sexual abuse after a sergeant was charged with raping a recruit 2½ years ago.

The former recruiter, Sgt. Eric P. Vetesy, 39, is expected to plead guilty Friday in the Hamilton County case. He faces 39 charges relating to sexual misconduct with females he recruited — mostly high school teenagers — when he appears in court in Noblesville.

The state’s top Guard recruiting official said the dismissals since Vetesy’s arrest, though troublesome, show that new rules and procedures implemented to prevent and expose sex-related wrongdoing in Guard recruiting are working.

“In other words, violations stopped being swept under the rug,” Lt. Col. Ivan E. Denton noted in an update to the National Guard Bureau in Washington earlier this year.

Denton, who oversees nearly 200 Guard recruiters statewide, has logged and investigated 36 sex-related complaints since the February 2005 indictment of Vetesy.

“We had a little bit of a spike,” Denton said of the complaints lodged after Guard officials responded to Vetesy’s indictment with statewide counseling of recruiters and new procedures to encourage the reporting of incidents.

Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/09/gns_indianaguard_recruiters_070914/

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1. "two on one" principle equals INTIMIDATION versus intimate

Could these recruiter restrictions such as the "two on one" principle be the reason why the National Guard is having a harder time meeting their Recruiting Goals.

..."The new ethics policy includes the “No One Alone” rule, developed immediately following Vetesy’s arrest, which states that at least one other person must be present when a recruiter is in contact with a recruit of the opposite sex."...