Sex assault cases in US military persist during COVID-19 lockdown ...United Arab Emirates

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Washington: The number of reported US military sexual assault cases stayed at a high level during last year’s COVID-19 lockdown, but did not increase, according a Pentagon report Thursday. The annual report by the Defence Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) recorded 7,816 sexual assault complaints in 2020, a slight fall from the record 7,825 of 2019. The stabilisation came after years of steady increases, three per cent in 2019 and 13 per cent the previous year. In 2020 the Navy and Marine Corps both saw increases while reported assaults fell in the Air Force and Army. SAPRO says that reported assaults fall far short of actual assaults, sometimes by 75 per cen

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