Military Sex Abuse Prevention Official Ran On-Base Prostitution Ring

[Ichingcarpenter]

Military Sex Abuse Prevention Official Ran On-Base Prostitution Ring
Forced Subordinate Into Prostitution

Last week’s story of the US Air Force’s Chief Sexual Assault Prevention and Response officer being arrested for sexual assault may have been embarrassing, but it seems to have been the tip of the iceberg.

Today’s story features a much worse incident in the Army, with reports that the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) coordinator for Fort Hood was caught running an on-base prostitution ring and sexually abusing female soldiers under his command. He was also accused of forcing subordinate female soldiers into prostitution.

The soldier was identified as Sgt. First Class Gregory McQueen, and in the face of allegations ranging from sexual abuse to pimping and misuse of power, he has been suspending from his duties, though officials maintain he has yet to actually be charged with crimes related to this.

Officials familiar with the situation say Sgt. McQueen got his start when he persuaded a private under his command to sell sexual favors to other soldiers. The ring grew but he was finally caught after he approached another private as a potential recruit and sexually assaulted her when she refused to be a prostitute. She reported the attack to military officials.


http://news.antiwar.com/2013/05/15/military-sex-abuse-prevention-official-ran-on-base-prostitution-ring/

Hey but don't touch that military budget we have prostitution rings to run.


Tip of the iceberg?

[patrice]

1. I'm guessing from some personal experience, that IS the tip of an iceberg. Many Americans

would be shocked by attitudes toward sexual adventurism in the military.

I'm not mentioning this to condemn anyone. It's just the way that things are and have been for a long time, so people are making a mistake if they think the two cultures, military and civilian, have the same sexual culture. They DO NOT and practically all military, members and spouses, know "What happens _______________________ STAYS ___________________ . " I bet there's quite a bit of pressure against anyone who steps outside of those implicit and unquestioned agreements.

[giftedgirl77]

2. Common Place

This is standard practice & happens DAILY I know of a young Soldier that accused another enlisted Soldier of forcing her to rub him off. Initially she didn't tell anyone but another Soldier noticed that the female would get really freaked out when he came around. When asked about it she told what had happened it was taken to an admin board (tried to fire him) instead of criminal because of the lack of evidence. Well paraded a bunch of ppl in to say how great he was so he was retained. This was only one of at least 100 that I know of personally.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Remember what they told us about Abu Ghraib?

It was just a bunch of bad apples.

[Sheldon Cooper]

4. Astonishing.

What the hell is going on with our armed forces? This didn't happen in a vacuum - how many people knew about this and didn't reveal it? Unbelievable.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Tip of the iceberg.

[Melinda]

6. ...

I read Male rape survivors tackle military assault in tough-guy culture and came here after...

Even my mind can't comprehend this shit. It's an unspoken military culture of criminal freak. Fuck.

[rhett o rick]

7. This will continue to go on unless the top brass are held responsibility.

Claims of "plausible deny-ability" should be ignored. The CIC should tell his top brass to clean it up in 6 months or be fired.