past decade they have been increasing quicker than during the first one hundred years of observations it is a fact. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the us armed forces. in the army.

broadcasting live from our central studios here and. now let's take a look at your top headlines. afghanistan and. pakistan to discuss battling the drugs coming from central asia with the afghan war seen as the major cause of instability. moscow police on high alert as investigations suggest russia's number one terrorist suspect and the man behind. could be responsible for tuesday's car bomb blast in russia that injured thirty. also a human rights group says the scandal involving an israeli army officer posting pictures of herself posing with palestinian detainees is just the tip of the iceberg. and the new polish president pledges better relations with russia as investigators from both countries join forces to continue examining what caused it. plane crash

which killed president lech kaczynski. that's a look at our headlines next in our special report we look at the personal stories of female u.s. soldiers who were sexually assaulted while serving in iraq and the army's attempts to cover it up. or will. jefferson barracks national symmetry hear the u.s. military on a small children to consume in two thousand wounded from camp things past and present. but for the family of one soldier buried here the defense bill says code of honor and respect means nothing.

you blessed us when you gave to us. we just never imagined we wouldn't help her loman the. today dr john johnson has come back to reaffirm his promise to his nineteen year old daughter that he will continue the fight to find out how she died. i'm asking you to just continue to to bless us to encourage us to get justice for. dr johnson birth fuses to believe the army's finding that he's daughter private living or lean johnson killed herself just five weeks into her tour of iraq by firing her name sixteen rifle into. you get a nineteen year old female that gets off work she puts a reflective belt around her waist stops at the p.s.

and seabass soldier lip balm and in many indigo say she walks across the post and sets doubt in a dark trash contractors tip and said down a shot of self with a male sixty rifle and then believe makes sense as she put all her thing your prayer all around the room. and she with asking me mom do i have a rhyme out of this book and i can't bear to take it now. living is not the linda i spoke to the night before she died she was her happy jubilant please so we left. and i say we would make it plain stocking about christmas and it's july seventeenth. two days after that a soldier showed up unannounced at the johnson spline in missouri. so he looked up at me and he said. are you lyndon johnson the mother i have

a living will be. and i say yes very. where do you. any open his little book and he said he began to read i regretfully inform you that your daughter private living only in charleston. is due. of a self-inflicted wound. and i just began screamin it and i just lost our can believe. after the initial shock the family began to question the army's rush to judgment that living a died of a self-inflicted injury. that's the one with the rifle. dr johnson

is a veteran himself who went on to work for the army as a civilian specialist in psychology for nearly three decades but for the past three years he has studied every aspect of his daughter's did. but i am looking for the sketch that the criminal investigators may. their best to showcase in. their close up of it. love it as some of the blood pattern with his brother joe a former prisons officer with forensics training their spin countless hours analyzing in cross referencing photos reports and the testimony of those in the camp and i when this account they stated that from the time he heard what he deemed to be at the back for r. or a gun shot he looked in the direction he saw flames coming from the kid no live d.f.a.

see two with just a contract to stay. one of the many in consistencies according to dr johnson is the army's conclusion that living in a used in excel or and to start a small fiat to burn her diary which then spread to a nearby building which the witnesses say that the stone was lying on top of her someone live in a cellar in excel it was sitting on the bottom of the stove so physically that that evidence just shows there was at least another person in that location once when she were by it was placed there because that's not where she. there's also you believe that there is science that she was sexually assaulted. dr johnson believes levine a was raped and mooted by someone in her camp and accuses the army of covering up a soldier on soldier slaying. it would be easy to dismiss his conclusions

as the imaginings of a grief stricken father if that moment the disturbing pattern of sex crimes indeed initially in action in the u.s. military is going to jessica and. i. jessica kenyon is an army veteran and today she is giving a talk to students at a new york college it is. jessica says she survived multiple rapes in situ assaults joining the military korea and she is now campaigning to increase awareness of the problem is important for those of us who are able to speak out. for the ones who are just not able to mentally or emotionally or whatever so this is a infantry division which is basically everybody in korea becoming an officer had

been her dream and then the wings in the u.s. signify that. but as a mechanic attached to a helicopter squadron kenyan found herself in a unit way few women had been before and in a culture where bullying and persecution was the norm it was just premature hazing birthday or a tour you know where they do this they make them all up and then he's actually tied to a chair. right now but then they make a. sexual harris meant at all levels was commonplace and. women were a source of derision in this video she tunes in her base a young soldier was taunted and humiliated by his command for more than four hours after it was discovered he was a virgin and. lost

in the u.s. jessica says she was raped by a national guard soldier and later her wrist by who training instructor. jessica was then posted to korea where she continued working on apache helicopters and still had high hopes korea so it didn't really affect my work until i was fully assaulted before raped by another soldier in korea who was actually a friend of mine here i had confided in while i was overseas. and so. i didn't report that right away either as well because for the same exact reasons that i couldn't trust my commander my commanders or my sergeants or anything anyone associated with my commander. jessica says that she eventually made an official report after his superior insisted he would make sure who the sideline was child. that when her attacker was found guilty she says that same command gave him just

forty five. and demotion to banks it really breaks my heart you know because i was going and i was really pushing for the twenty years ago officer you know i was fully capable but. for all of that to go down no it came to me for me to do the right thing and then for them to not even hold their end of the bargain a little add in the honor to it it was really pretty disgusting her breaking in most sexual assault filled victims are not treated well. they become a double victim they become a victim of the system. retired army colonel and relight is another veteran campaigning against sexual assaults the issue of sexual assault in our u.s. military is very grave one in three women it appears have been sexually assaulted during the time they've been in the military. is the former u.s.

diplomats and antiwar activists believes the military justice system is stacked against sexual assault victims. tattling on someone else in your unit even though that person has committed a criminal act on you or gets out of the unit. has been messing around with someone else and look at sergeant so and so he's being accused of rape and he's got a wife and two kids and we can't sacrifice his career because of this unmarried single night thousand year old woman that claims that he raped her you know one of heinlein's insults and not the army's own only problem in the background and sign and suzanne says and sweet in iraq in two thousand and four i'm up to sarah remembers will the night before who depart show. as it is there in times day

he has i remember hurrying and all three of them are asleep and i thought this may be the last time i ever have all three of my kids sleeping in the same room. soon after arriving in iraq then nineteen year old suzanne started calling her mother to tell her about problems within her platoon i heard that the man that told me don't worry ma'am we're going to take good care of your daughter started asking her to go into a sexual relationship with with him. that's the only one for us thank you all the way. susan experienced a phenomena known in the military as come on drape genius soldiers by high ranking commanders into sexual relationships which the military legally defines as right a couple of months into a kind of dawned on me. but i could say no to it. i just

hated it but i was like you know i don't care what you do to me she was telling me about the humiliation she was telling me about the things that these men were doing and saying. i remember one point she said mom you're either a bitch or whore and i don't want to be either one of those i don't want to be a bitch i don't want to be a whore. and really i remember her crying. but when susan complained about how she was being treated she says she was threatened he called me into his room one night and he was like work. i know that you're thinking that it might be ok thing to go to the commander about this but i'm just going to deny it and you're going to be the one that gets in trouble. susan was saying to ensure. that when it came time to ship back to iraq schieffer and chose to go rather than return to face there is silence so why did you decide what

happened that moment when you said no i just realized that i could there's no escape when you're there and there are no the guy in charge or you are going to charge you. can make you do anything including like you know run through that minefield you go i don't like you. this is in statement to the military about who come on drapes when she was eventually arrested in jails for going the army offered her a deal it would reduce his sentence if she signed a new watered down statement so suzanne response that was that i'm not doing that and then she took the document as she corrected it everything that they had written just so that they would really see what really happened to her you know i always and to this day absolutely believe my daughter one hundred percent but that really means she's she's got some power you know she's very powerful she's very strong and

this showed me that she would rather go to prison then say you know then deny what happened to her. since we've just now out of the army and getting back into normal life today helping out a friend with babysitting and this is. just like everybody's doing. regularly you know it's a. really. good on when i'm doing other stuff. but for the next eighteen months she's still on a ready reserve at least with the possibility of being called that hanging over her head and her assailant still punched. a major chris right the people that i've talked to who have think victims of sexual assault is that when they reported

it that they were victimized this is a phenomena that has existed in this is precisely part of the culture that we're we are in fact turning around. brigadier general jim phillips is a thirty year period veteran and deputy chief at the army's public relations department before i go any farther i want to offer an apology to anyone associated with the army who has endured sexual abuse sexual harassment assault of any kind this is a this is a problem that the army is tackling with we're going at it full bore quite frankly . our sexual assault wounds the victim physically mentally and emotionally to try to change its culture the army recently launched an awareness campaign using d.v.d.'s like this one. what a sexual assault occurred it is a direct violation of not just our army core values and warrior ethos it is an

assault on the army way of life our money from which it is our duty to protect and take care of each other no matter the time please really what we're doing here is we're engaged in cultural change not unlike what the army went through in the late forty's fifty's and into the sixty's as we addressed racial inequality cultural change at a very profound level the are the army in fact is leading the country in this sort of. awful change a quorum being present as a video national's those kinds and no longer preceding the army civilian losses will come to order i find it outrageous that brave women at a hearing on situ assault in the military last september congresswoman carolyn maloney promoting the lack of progress by the department of defense i have been in congress for seven terms now and every single term we have had meetings with dio d. and they come in and they confirm to the us to us we're going to be serious we're

going to take care of this we're going to stop this zero tolerance but the rhetoric is not being turned into the reality of protecting our women and in some cases men and our military just the committee was grilling dr kay whitley she's the head of the defense department unit set up to address the situation so problem of course but dr whitley had filed to even turn up to an early a hearing and having finally appeared she had few and says even as to why her oversight body hadn't met for nearly two years do you know why didn't me. my understanding is they had a difficult time getting the right people in the job thing getting them cleared as i said i wasn't privy to the discussions about why nor did the problem i'm having is that it sounds like you're weak. state line tried

to speak with dr whitley but she declined to be interviewed or. it seems that in this whole area all the army can do is apologize in fact we're the first thing we do is apologize because we do recognize that there is a problem that reflects a society wide problem to say it's reflective of society is to dismiss the extent of the problem though isn't it because. the problem is much bigger in the military then the real world if we are acting aggressively on the problem and so the farthest thing we're doing is dismissing it what we're saying is we recognize that this part of a larger piece the piece that we can act on is a piece in the army and that's what we're acting directly on and none of that is any consolation to john johnson look at video he is running down the left sad of her body which clearly implicates this she was lying on her lip side when she died knowing that not all her back like what like what she was found think him and his

family this is and says goes on every piece of evidence they have had to be forced out of the army using freedom of information requests so to have to apply constantly under freedom of information to be subjected to rounds and rounds of paperwork just find out the basics is that how it is information that is available to them under the law and under policy should be forthcoming that if it hasn't been that that is a mistake that should be corrected. dr johnson believes the small fire that burned into next to his daughter's body is evidence that someone tried to cover up this smiling the young niece says there's no evidence to back that. the fire inside the tent resulted from p.f.c. johnson sitting some papers on she used to accelerate to ignite several pages that she had ripped out of a notebook which is believed to have been

a diary. the army investigators also claim that living in his behavior prior to her death pointed to suicide but her own company commanders statement suggested otherwise this soldier was clearly happy and seemingly very healthy physically and emotionally. with no suicide note no recovered bullets no significant. residual on her hands and injuries the johnsons believe was cool by an attack and they decided to push on with their own inquiries and use force taking you behind the scenes of the investigation into the death of a local soldier dead a private living at johnson is clouded in controversy and allegations of a cover up news was met with the johnsons had levain his body exist and an independent autopsy conducted by missouri state officials but it failed to provide conclusive and says this examination does not demonstrate any evidence of an

assault but you can't eliminate sexual activity by an examination of an adult person and if there is not injury that doesn't mean that there hasn't been sexual activity so you can't rule it out you cannot rule it out. with the military having failed to conduct a right to exist at the time if they did there was little that could be done. knowing delivering is did the defense force finalized its report officially concluding that she committed suicide and that the thai speak low sed. you know look of the dripping looks like it's this one and then there were the russian so the implication here is that when this event took place that they like was reversed position peta diet chalk in the truck with forensic scientists a john jay college of criminal justice in new york just melted plastic stuck

deadline approached them to take an independent look at the living in the johnson case. after reviewing the evidence they say they understand why the johnsons doubt the military's spine dings. in your mind a suicide. that conclusion i believe is premature at this point it is one of the potential conclusions but to say definitively i don't see enough compelling evidence taken overall to state that it is in fact a suicide and i think that's one of the possibilities. both have concerns about evidence that appears missed or missing including the test if she had been sexually assaulted they said it wasn't done for she was. standing up to say we don't you don't need to die really doesn't matter people can be addressed on drastic cetera so the fact she had some burning possible burning on the skin. on the way and

not apparent burning on the clothing might mean something happened with the clothing off so these are the things you want to check that's why you good old american check these things to eliminate the possibility of them having happened i think that there are so many unanswered questions about levine and steph and how how her body was found in a tent how she was able to kill herself set herself on fire set the tent on fire i'm. stunned that so little investigation was done at the scene itself. tragically according to and write the johnson story is not unique of the more than one hundred fifteen thing now service member deaths in the iraq and afghanistan wars sixteen had been ruled suicides. i've talked to four of the families of those women and they maintain. their daughter sister did not commit

suicide. and question very strongly. what did go on and all of them are getting no cough ration from the military from the army they are being told. there's nothing else to investigate we finished our investigation and we're not reopening it. so the johnsons each day is a struggle they do says big dream remains untouched that there are no youth. anywhere in the house when she left me in such a horrible horrible use. it hurts me even more to look at that smile. it's been a hell of a lot to go through and run. how do you keep doing this. you know i think originally this just this was tough. but i

am on a mission you know somebody murdered my daughter i couldn't give up all my baby so i'm going to fight this until i get justice for. what's justice they need to make some changes in their attitude about the way how they treat women in the military just get past look they know best not all for me it's going to be a fight now to see if we can get some changes in. the close up team has been to the kaluga missions where the car industry is rapidly developing. not all argee goes to the area where the first russian fleet was born. where the indigenous people were the first target sees

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