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80 Military Recruiters Disciplined for Sexual Misconduct Over the Past Year
The Associated Press has revealed that more than 80 military recruiters have been disciplined over the past year for sexual misconduct. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams. We speak with Martha Mendoza, the Pulitzer prize-winning AP reporter who exposed the story.
Desperate for more troops, the U.S. Marines announced it is beginning an involuntary recall of inactive service members to return to duty and go to Iraq and Afghanistan. The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has now increased to one hundred thirty eight thousand. At the same time, sexual misconduct by military recruiters is on the rise.
This is the opening paragraph from a recent Associated Press expose: "More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams."
The article goes on to quote an 18 year-old victim who says: "This should never be allowed to happen. The recruiter had all the power. He had the uniform. He had my future. I trusted him.""
We speak with the Pulitzer prize-winning AP reporter who exposed the story, Martha Mendoza.
* Martha Mendoza, national investigative reporter for the Associated Press.
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This is the opening paragraph from a recent Associated Press expose: "More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams."
The article goes on to quote an 18 year-old victim who says: "This should never be allowed to happen. The recruiter had all the power. He had the uniform. He had my future. I trusted him.""
We speak with the Pulitzer prize-winning AP reporter who exposed the story, Martha Mendoza.
* Martha Mendoza, national investigative reporter for the Associated Press.
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/23/1413222
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Alabama Army Recruiting Stations Are Enlisting Soldiers Under forged Custody Agreement Without Consent of Both Parents of Dependents.
According to records provided by Mr. Tompkins in a letter to the Secretary of Defense The Honarable Donald Rumsfeld, Local U.S. Army recruiters in Montgomery had organized a scheme with Dallas County Probate Judge John Jones to allow his office to be used to notarized and forge a custody agreement with only the consent of one parent, a Jessica Larry. the document beared the Dallas county seal for the State of Alabama. The letter further contain evidence of sexual contact with Army recruiters, use of private vehicle with recruiters, exchange of money from recruiters to enlistees. The custody agreement was being used a part of Mrs. Larry's family care plan, according to court records Mr.Tompkins son was placed in the care of a drug user in a high crime housing projects of Smiley Court with a Betty Barker and a sex offender.
In one conversation, Army recruiters was explaining that one recruitee ask the recruiter if he was going to put her in the Army and the recruiter sexually explained that he was going to put the Army in her."
On or about April 11th 2006 Family court Judge Patricia Warner entered an order directing that Mr. Tompkins not participate in a Federal Criminal Investgation (CID), Judge Warner and attorneys For Ms. Larry however intended for her April 11th 2006 order to stop the federal investigation, while chilling Mr. Tompkins rights as a parent. The criminal investigtion was a separate family matter that Judge Warner intervene in for personal gain and to protect Probate Judge John Jones of Selma , Alabama. ( uploading forged custody agreement).
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The Montgomery county alabama judicail system very corrupt, its politicial and filled up greed. You can not seek justice there only favors. My story is just one of hundreds of case that reflectst he atmosphere of Jena La. ( Jena 6). My son was palced with a drug user named bettey barker and placed one adult and one juvenile sex offender. However , my story don't ends there. Organized crime, politicial corruption, shady real estate scheme, they all are trying to steal and if you try and fight , I am sure they will have you arrested on some false charges and the lawyer will eat you up.
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