'It's the whole system': Survivors of alleged abuse by Army doctor demand accountability

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Four women who say they were abused by an Army doctor went to Capitol Hill to tell their stories to Congress. These women are the tip of the iceberg, four among potentially thousands of victims in the largest sexual abuse case in the history of the U.S. military. Amna Nawaz spoke with the survivors before they met with lawmakers. A warning: the conversation contains descriptions of sexual abuse.



Four women who say they were abused by the same Army doctor went to Capitol Hill today to tell their stories to members of Congress. These women are the tip of the iceberg, four among potentially thousands of victims and what's being called the largest sexual abuse case in the history of the U.S. military.

In October, the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, or CID, launched a criminal investigation into Major Blaine McGraw , an Army OB-GYN at Fort Hood in Texas, after a patient's husband alleged the doctor had inappropriately touched her.

Investigators discovered McGraw had secretly videotaped hundreds of his patients during sensitive exams he performed. The Army charged McGraw last month with more than 50 counts of indecent visual recording, as well as conduct on becoming an officer, willful disobedience of a superior officer, and making a false official statement.

And the Army has contacted roughly 3,000 former patients of McGraw from Fort Hood and from his previous post, Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. McGraw is currently being held in a Texas jail.

I spoke with four survivors of his abuse this morning before they met with lawmakers.