. >> reporter: carly marquette and annie kenz yore say they were raped. raped by fellow classmates they trusted and ignored, they say, by a chain of command that promised their parents they'd be protected. >> and nobody, not a single person, not one, was looking out for her best interest. >> reporter: carly marquette was not your typical teenage girl. that's her, cage fighting at 18. >> that's it, carly. >> reporter: an all-star rugby player, champion swimmer and honor student. she could have gone to college anywhere. what was it about west point that drew you to the academy? >> just knowing you kind of have your future set having the structure and discipline but at the same time having people look at you, like, wow, you're doing something great for our country. >> reporter: her sister was a midshipman at the naval academy, her father a marine. to karley, they were heroes, everything she wanted to be. do you think west point let you down? >> yeah. i wanted to be there. it was my dream. >> reporter: a dream that was shattered her first year when an uppercl

when carly marquette came forward to say she was raped at west point she believed her case would be investigatedr the investigators meeting with my parents and they promised my parents that if he wasn't going to jail they could at least get him kicked out of west point. >> but he's still there. >> but he's still there. >> annie says she, too, believed her allegations of rape would be investigated. >> i was like they're going to get him, like, good. >> but carly and annie say their alleged perpetrators were never punished. so now, they filed a lawsuit. naming former secretary of defense robert gates, the former superintendents of west point and the naval academy. secretary of the navy ray mabis, and secretary of the army, john mccue. the lawsuit claims there was limited support from commanders and failure to ensure sexual predators were prosecuted and incarcerated for their crimes. carly and anne are not alone. reports of sexual assault at the academies are up nearly 60%, and of the 65 reports investigated last year, only one resulted in a court-martial. >> i ache for those former cadet and midsh

. >> carly marquette and annie kenzior say they were raped, raped by fellow classmates they trusted andat promised their parents they'd be protected. >> and nobody, not a single person, not one, was looking out for her best interests. >> we reached out to west point and the naval academy for comment. they declined an interview due to privacy issues. as for the secretary of defense, leon panetta, he couldn't directly respond to carly and annie's allegations for the same reason, but he did sit down with me to tell me what he is doing about sexual assault in the military. just one week after our interview, secretary panetta held a news conference and announced new initiatives with regard to investigations and prosecutions. >> we've got to train commanders to understand that when these complaints are brought, they've got to do their damnedest to make sure these people are brought to justice. that's the only way we're going to try to prevent this in the future is to show that people cannot get away with it. >> how do you get it through these men's heads if they rape, they will pay the price?