The Feres Doctrine
Protection of National Security or Global Destabilization?
United States Military Sanctioned Use of Sexual Abuses/Abuses
(And the Prevention of Sexual Abuse by the use of
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRC)

By

Dorothy H. Mackey, Executive Director STAMP
Survivors Take Action against abuse by Military Personnel and Former US Air Force Officer and Commander
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Proposal Category:

Institutional Abuse and Violence and
Prevention of Sexual Abuse

For: U.S. Senator Specter
Table of Content:

Abstract Title Page

Abstract Proposal

Background Personal and Research Summary

Attachments Military Background and Research

          Attachment Theory versus Actual Practices, and Cases Histories

          Attachment Psychology of the US Military

          Attachment USC 522A Non-disclosure of Non-Judicial Punishment
          (Troops to Teachers)

          Attachment Military Rape Conviction Rates and Statistics

          Attachment Rape Allegation Checklist – McDowell’s Scoring

          Attachment Veterans Administration - Mission Confusion; Helping Veterans or Harming Veterans

          Attachment Military Serial Killers

          Summary

          The Prevention of Sexual Abuse: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

          [Video Tape for Optional Viewing of the School of the America’s (Hand carried)]



SUBJECT CATEGORY:    Institutional abuse and violence and Prevention of Sexual Abuse

ABSTRACT Title:    U.S. Military’s Sanctioned Use of Sexual Abuses (And the use of a Truth and Reconciliation                                        Commission (TRC)

Author:    D. H. Mackey, Executive Director STAMP (Survivors Take Action against abuse by Military Personnel)  
    

Preferred Type of Presentation:    oral

Personal Data of Presenting Author:
Title:    Executive Director, STAMP, Survivors Take Action against abuse by Military Personnel,
           Former US Air Force Captain and Commander

Initials:    B.S., MPA

Name:    D. H. Mackey

Department/Institution:  STAMP    

Street: 500 Greene Tree Place

Zip:    45324

City:    Fairborn, Ohio

Country:    USA

Phone:     Private:                  (937) 879-9304
               Survivor’s Line:      (937) 879-2568

Email:      Dmack500@aol.com


Note:  This package was originally and specifically written for multiple conferences to address sexual abuses of military and civilians both in the US and abroad. The paper discusses the long term affects of abuse and tracks the impact of sanctioned, or ignored abuses in the US and abroad. It is my belief that these exploitations of citizens began with the exploitation of new recruits through the training and indoctrination process. These allowances of abuses, infractions and out and out indifference of abuses towards foreign nationals, spouses or their own members are in part responsible for the greater abuses of military and civilians globally and are reflected in our laws and international policies.  While this document is specifically written to address only sexual abuses the patterns and philosophy are all the same for other abuses to include the exploitation of military and veterans who have been exposed to nuclear radiation (experimentation), abuses through sexual, mental, physical, emotional training or abuses, as well as spouses, children and/or foreign nationals.  


The United States Military’s Sanctioned Use of Sexual Abuses
The Prevention: Use of
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRC)

Personal Summary:

U.S. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf to West Point Cadets 1991
     “some of the best leadership lessons I have ever learned have been taught by dumb officers, absolutely morally bankrupt            officers who had no redeeming qualities, in many cases, you learn far more from negative leadership than from positive                leadership because you learn how not to do it."

As a former Captain and Commander with almost 9 years in the US military I witnessed and experienced many things.  As a Commander, as was the officers above me, it was our duty to hold people fully accountable to the criminal and misdemeanor laws written within the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) (Attachment Theory v. Actual). I am very grateful for the many wonderful people I met and learned from who instilled the TRUE meaning of honor, courage and integrity.  Yet, there are also rogue members of the US military and government who do not embody honor, courage and integrity but instead embrace what I would refer to as “the ugly American” mentality.  It is my belief based on experiences, countless personal testimonies, US policies and government agency patterns that rape and assault is trained, sanctioned and protected by US rogue military and government agents and agencies. (Attachment Psychology of the US Military).

The following is a brief summary of my military experience and research concerning the rogue US government and military:

My Military Career:  
-  Within the 1st 5 years I was raped 3 times, twice by military doctors, once by a 1st Sgt, Senior Master Sgt. Who I had worked with for years,

-  A young woman was raped under my command, there were no rape crisis plan or intervention in Europe, and the counselors were ill informed,

-  Five children were molested by their military step fathers, all were charged, evidence was sufficient for criminal prosecution, yet, only one was convicted and received jail time (he was an African-American),

-  Military men were intentionally targeting newly assigned military women to Europe (to get them drunk) and to rape or gang raped them. I went to the prosecutor, who refused to prosecute or investigate these crimes noting, the women had been drinking,
     -  The legal office agreed that if I wrote an article for the base, they would see it got published
     -  Writing an informative article for the base paper on breaking the myths of rape, informing both men and women of their personal and legal responsibility I sent the article to several levels of commanders to include the wing commander.
     -  A Colonel called me in to inquire if what I had written was true, despite his interest the article was never published.


-  While at a military training school a general officer responded to a question concerning a Navy Admiral who was simply retired without punishment after groping the breasts of a female Navy dental technician “[he] the admiral served with distinction for 26 years.”  The same general went on to state that a war is waged not against another military but against it’s civilian population, it was learned in the Vietnam war that if you break the spirit of the civilian population the military will not fight.
 
-  Child endangerment and domestic violence cases were minimized and ignored by the Colonel and Inspector General [(IG)- is military complaint system)] who told the witness of child neglect to bake cookies for the offender.
 
-  The IG stated when informed of domestic violence cases of the women complainants, they the complainants “are all flakes and nuts” the incidents of domestic violence was never dealt with.
     -  US military dismissal of years of domestic violence and sexual abuse of children and wives (Cynthia Eng) turned deadly May 26, 1992 when the wife defended her children and self, shot her abusive husband, who died. The US Air Force refused to turn over the abuse records to her attorney; she was convicted of murder, her children given to her in-laws. Mrs. Eng herself, previously a sexually abuse military veteran could not find help.
     -  Three years later another attorney took her case and proved Eng acted in self defense, Eng was released but her children were never returned to her.
     -  Despite US court expulsion of her records on self-defense the Veterans Administration (health treatment of military) refused to provide Eng with a disability noting “she killed a veteran”.

-  I was tag team assaulted for a year by my two bosses, the IG and his assistant. I tried to find help inside the system but could not and had to leave my career or die at their hands.  
     -  Department of Justice (DOJ); US prosecutors, I sought help 3 times and was refused help, I had to find my own lawyer, the DOJ provided attorneys to the men who assaulted me.
     -  Attempt of Accountability: In an attempt to hold my offenders accountable my case went into the US court system. Eight and nine years later I ended up at the Supreme Court, twice and twice the SC refused to hear my case…instead I learned there are 5 laws of the US government books that gives full immunity from prosecution to US military members who; rape, murder, maim or assault other military members or civilians.  These laws are:       
          -  Feres Doctrine
          -  Bivens Doctrine
          -  Title VII
          -  Intra-military Immunity,
          -  US Code 522A Attachment Non-disclosure of Non-Judicial Punishment (Troops to Teachers)

Precedence Cases of rape and abuse in the US military include:

          -  Stubbs v. US
          -  Colin v. US
          -  Mackey v. US
          -  Sarah Smith v. US (Aberdeen Proving Ground)

In the last 12 years the US military law book known as the Uniformed Code of Military Justice has moved rape from a “capitol crime,” punishable by death to one that is less then 4 years.  However, the reality is that rape is rarely prosecuted, more often the charge is changed from rape to adultery or fraternization both consensual and both misdemeanors.  (Attachment Rape Conviction Statistics) Tactics often used within the US military to minimize the crime of rape or assault:  


Women and men in the military who report being sexually abused are often:
     -  Men are often ignored all together or categorized as “combat” veterans even if they never saw combat,
     -  “Nuts or sluts” – crazy or promiscuous by the military mental health community,
     -  lesbian – if they are lesbian, the rapist threatens to expose their sexual preference which will result in the victims discharge from service,
     -  if the victim is gay or lesbian, the rapist will justify the attack as “they” deserved to be raped,
     -  if not lesbian but raped, the offender will call the victim a lesbian to confuse the real issue this is known as “gay bating”,
     -  Muddy the waters - Use of other issues such as race, or marital status to confuse the issue (Sgt. Major McKinney case e.g. black male charged with harassment and assault. McKinney threatened to expose 22 general Army officers, he was only convicted of tampering with evidence


Incompetence and Purposeful Disregard of Rape:  

Mr. McDowell, a military criminal investigator, expert and trainer on the subject of rape is responsible for the training of all other service investigators of rape. McDowell has devised a 75-point questionnaire to determine if a victim is truthful about their rape. There are two problems with McDowell’s “expert” tactics Issue 1.) McDowell assesses points to rape victim’s commonly known symptoms such as confusion, loss of memory, etc. however,
Issue 2.) If a victim is confused in answering the questions they receive points, the victim must score below a zero to be considered truthful.  The higher the points the less likely the victim was raped or assaulted. (Attachment Rape Allegation Checklist -McDowell scoring) (Attachment Veterans Administration - Mission Confusion; Helping Veterans or Harming Veterans).


Bridging the Gap:

School of the America’s (SOA) know now as "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation" it is also known as the School of Assassins. Currently located at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA. It and US military schools like it have been funded and operated by the US government for over 50 years with US military faculty. The US military faculty have taught foreign police and military members how to rape, maim, murder, kidnap, extort, and torture civilian men, women and children in their own nations.  SOA and its tactics were originally directed at the cold war nations but with the end of the cold war they have expanded considerably.  (Tape by the SOA Watch group available for viewing)   

Among its graduates the SOA can count:
     -   death squads responsible for the rape and murder of four United States nuns in South America,
     -   death squads responsible for the murder of five Jesuit priests,
     -   death squads responsible for “Operation Condor” in Chile which kidnapped hundreds and enslaved them in other countries…


“Former Congressperson Joseph Kennedy stated "the US Army School of the Americas...is a school that has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world." In total, the school has produced at least eleven Latin American dictators. Its graduates include, among others, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, Major General Guillermo Rodriguez (who overthrew Ecuador's elected government and became dictator), Major General Juan Velasco (who did the same in Peru), Lieutenant General Roberto Viola and Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri (responsible for Argentina's "Dirty War"), Bolivian General Hugo Banzer Suarez (who despite murdering labor leaders and opposition politicians and sheltering a Nazi war criminal, was honored as a member of the SOA Hall of Fame in 1988), Major General Guido Vildoso (military dictator of Bolivia), Brigadier General Juan Melgar Castro (military dictator of Honduras), and José Efraín Montt (dictator of Guatemala).”


U.S. International Inequities:  

The U.S. government sees itself as a benevolent big brother committed to world peace, democratization and harmony. In isolation these previous factors could possibly be discounted as random anomalies. Yet, together rogue agencies, agents and programs such as the School of the America’s along with the countless treaties and agreements the U.S. have shunned, have stirred up serious questions as to the genuine commitment of the U.S. government to stop rape, sexual assaults, molestation and harassment globally.  Refusal to sign treaties and documents whose only intent it is to safeguard humanity shows quite a contradictory picture of the U.S. leadership. Below are just a few of the U.S. and international documents, policies and treaties that have raised questions as to the U.S intentions:

Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Visiting Forces Agreements (VFA):  

The SOFA is an agreement forged by the US Department of State that establishes jurisdiction, redress and financial accountability involving US military personnel while in foreign nations. SOFA’s can include jurisdiction and reparations to rape victims, multi-national children, environmental damage, or accidental deaths and reimbursements. However, SOFA agreements are not globally equal! Lengths of SOFA’s differ, as do accountability of US military personnel despite the single mindedness of the leaderships of the US and the US State Department.  
     -   United Kingdom and Germany are between 250 and 300 pages in length,
     -   In the East Asian Pacific Nations such as Korea, Thailand, Philippines (VFA), Okinawa SOFA’s lengths include “32, 16 or 1 page long”, **Information from East Asian Pacific Summit 1998
     -   In Korea, if a Korean woman forced into prostitution due to the economic inequities attempts to speak out against a US military abuser, the woman can be placed in prison by Korea for speaking out against the national security agreement of Korea
     -   Women in Philippines speaking out against abuse by US military members have been denied traveling visas to international conferences on the subject


US Refuses to Sign and Ratify:

International Criminal Court (ICC) noting that the US does not want to subject any of it’s soldiers to international laws.

 Banning of Rape treaty: the US has refused to sign the international treaty on rape making rape a war crime.
 

US Supreme Court and Immigration and Nationalization Service (INS):

The US Supreme Court refused to hear a case in 2001 concerning granting automatic US citizenship to children born overseas to US military men.  Current policy remains that any US male who has relations with a foreign woman must sign that the child born is his to receive US citizenship.

INS noted in May 2002 that any US person who has a child with a foreign non-US citizen that that child born is automatically a US citizen.    


Violence Against Women Act II (VAWAII):

VAWA is a United States bill that allots funds for various women of multi-racial, national, cultural, and spiritual backgrounds to seek protection from violence by having funds to assist in their protection.  During the initial writing of the VAWA act a minor section was in the bill that provided assistance to US military civilian wives (spouses); however, no protections existed for US military women.  During the second draft of the VAWAII bill a stronger section was added for the spouses and a section was added for US military women. During Congressional consideration of the bill it was noted that if the section for military women were not taken out, and the section for spouses lessened the bill in it’s entirety would not pass.      

The issue – Rape and sexual harassment has forever been an essential part of war thus the saying “To the victor goes the spoils.”  However, since the mid 20th century, science and the humanities has become acutely aware of the social, personal, moral and economic affects of rape, molestation and sexual harassment. These acts once unleashed to control populations and subjugate the masses do not add to the greatness of any society or agency that employs them but instead will undermine the very society that employed these tactics.  The following attachment is a list of the most prolific serial killers of the US, each one of these people were either in the US military or a child to a US military member. (Attachment Serial Killers)

Attachment Theory versus Actual Practice, and Cases Histories
US Military Channels for Disputes
How the US Military Services Work in
Theory versus Actual Practice,
and Cases Histories
August, 1998 by D. H. Mackey

(This package was provided to D0D Secretary Rice via Congresswomen Maloney (NY) in 1998, it appeared that after the receipt of this information that the military became wiser in how to avoid being accountable for these offenses and crimes, but there was no true resolution or accountability for these crimes.)


Within the US military services exist a variety of organizational dispute channels set in place to address personnel issues.  Together these dispute channels form a unique and complex maze of agencies to assist in resolving illegal and often troubled behavior of its members.  The dispute channels are designed theoretically to mirror the civilian sector and provide a check and balance system within the military structure.  Below are a description of responsibilities of each dispute channel within the military services, how in theory they are to work, the intra-connectivity to other channels of authority within a specific service through to the Joint Chiefs, Department of Defense (DoD), and Commander-in Chief, and how they as dispute channels actually work.  Also, included are case histories, facts taken from STAMP files, and headline news reports demonstrating the flaws within each dispute channel and respective military services.

Channels of Dispute

What are the channels of disputes within the military system?  There exists various channels of dispute which can be used by an individuals or agencies to bring issues to light, through formal (report taken)or informal means in the military services. They are as follows;
-   Chaplain; minister, rabbi, priest,
-   Equal Employment Opportunity Counsel a.k.a. Social Actions,
-   Hospital Personnel; doctors or psychiatrist,
-   Legal Office a.k.a. (SJAG) Staff Judge Advocate Generals Office;
     -   (JAG) Judge Advocate General; Prosecution,
     -   (ADC) Area Defense Counsel; Defense Attorney,
-   Unit, Unit Commander, 1st Sgt., etc.,
-   Military Police; Security Police, Military Police, Shore Patrol, etc.,
-   Criminal Investigations; OSI, CID, NSI, etc.,
-   Installation Commanders, and  (IGs) Inspector General,
-   Major Commands, and (IGs) Major Command Inspector General,
-   DoD, DoD (IGs) Inspector General, and Service Secretaries,  
-   Commander in Chief, President, and
-   Congressional Complaint.

The guiding principle law at the heart of all military regulations is the United States (U.S.) Constitution.  Each military member in taking their oath swears their allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, nation, and to the officers over them, respectively.  The (UCMJ) Uniform Code of Military Justice is the military’s guidelines in jurisprudence in all matters of conduct concerning its members. The UCMJ in theory, with some startling exceptions is reflective of civilian jurisprudence. Such immediate examples are;
unlike the civilian sector there exists no client-attorney, patient-doctor, religious, or spousal privileges in the military services regardless of the subject matter.
Additionally, under the UCMJ any illegal offense known by any military member must be reported, or those failing to report the crime are subject to charges of violating the UCMJ.

When issues arise within the unit, or from an individual (financial difficulty, marriage problems, or sexual abuse or assault by another) the dispute channel should in theory work the same regardless of the issue.  When a situation occurs the issue can be identified by several sources;
-   self identified the member coming forward,
-   commander or 1st Sgt. identified,
-   various channels of dispute noted above,
-   outside agency identified, e.g. civilian law enforcement notifies a military installation, and
-   Congressional complaint.

The Military Group Structure

A “unit” or “flight” consists of a group of individual men and women service members. The unit or flight is the smallest group of military members with a command structure or leader. Within each service Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy and Coast Guard the “units” or “flights” may have different names but are essentially the same.  From the unit or flight is built upon a higher boss, which becomes a battalion or squadron. Squadrons and battalions become group or wing and at ever-successive level a higher command structure with oversight and authority over the lower levels and individuals.

Each dispute channel is designed in theory to function with some level of independence, thus each unit; dispute channel/unit is provided an internal chain of command.  Yet, at the same time, dispute channels/units are required to take it’s direction from “the chain of command”, no matter the circumstance, thus smaller units fold into larger units, channels of dispute known as “the chain of command”.  The entire structure is arranged to maintain and meet the military organizational goals and objectives reflected in military and US laws. The goals and objectives established are in place to preserve cohesiveness of the unit by maintaining morale, good order, and discipline, at the same time serve the larger national interests.  

From the lowest ranking person to the highest ranking the military system is embodied to epitomize units with specific goals, which will be built upon by the next higher level, and so on, and so forth.  Units/or dispute channels are formed on a common task (e.g. senior chaplains oversees the professional development of junior chaplains), which fold into “the chain of command” (1st Sgt., unit commanders, installation commanders, Inspector Generals, Major Command Leaders, Joint Chief of Staff, DoD IG and DoD, Commander in Chief, respectively). “The Chain of Command” is formed to provide leadership, guidance and maintain accountability of its membership to its government. Additionally, some professional ethical rules exist, as well as the rules of operation outlined in the UCMJ, derived from the federal laws, and Constitution.  It is essential to have established the basic foundation of a military structure. Yet, it is more significant within the military structure of the hierarchy there exists two masters over each channel of dispute/unit.  The first of the two masters is the professional chain of command of each dispute channel/unit, (i.e. chaplains over chaplains, maintenance over maintenance personnel)  However, and more significantly, the 2nd master is the greater master, and he/she is part of the “Chain of Command” installation commander, or Inspector General (IG).

The installation commander, or Inspector General (IG) carries absolute authority over all aspects of their installation.  Promotions, training, career path, decorations, and or longevity in service, etc. can be stopped or awarded based on the endorsements and discretion received by these two positions within the chain of command.  It is not uncommon or unheard of that installations commanders, major commands or the Inspector General (IG) influences or over rides the objective decisions of various dispute channels.  It is often noted by the military institutions,  “we take care of our own”, a term not always used to reflect the best possible outcome for all’s concerned, especially the individual member.  There exists many reasons for the justification that military remain the untouched bastion of military reign over military.  Fierce loyalty to maintain control over any situation involving military personnel can be due to; war time mission, complex terms and jargon used to confuse civilians, the need to maintain the morale, good order, and discipline, ensure national security, territorialism, and fear the military budget will be diminished to much is understood about the military inner workings.  

Following are descriptions of the channels of dispute/unit, how in theory they are to work, how in practice those channels actually work, and cases that reflect the flaws within each dispute channel.

Chaplains:
Theory:  Chaplains are to provide spiritual, and emotional support to military members and their families.  They are equally responsible for providing guidance and direction to the appropriate channels of dispute, and agents to assist in reporting, and assisting the member in resolution of conflict, thereby assisting in maintaining the morale, good order and discipline of the military service.   

Actual:  Military chaplains when sought out for assistance answer to two leaders; junior chaplains respond to direction of senior command chaplains in higher positions, but more significantly respond to the military installation commander (chain of command), (IG) Inspector General to which they immediately serve.  Military chaplains are often sought out because of their perceived spiritual loyalty above all else.  
However, chaplains over the years have been seen as having sold out their spiritual loyalty for their military rank, influence and pay checks.  

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
2000 Women’s Conference NY, NY Methodist women’s advocacy group dealing with abuse cases shared they received a call from a Marine Colonel Chaplain who wanted the advocacy group to educate them on how [he] could educate his men on how to tell the difference between a child prostitute and a woman prostitute?
 
July 1998, J.E. and Private J.M. after being raped and sodomized by the same drill Sgt. seek comfort from the installation Chaplain.  After explaining the incident the Chaplain yells at the women.

April 1993, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, D. Mackey, Capt., seeks counsel and direction to report the sexual abuse by superior officers, the base chaplain says he’s not sure what to do, and clearly does not want to get involved.

Tammy Carlson's army chaplain gave her three options after notifying him she was assaulted: take illegal drugs; get pregnant; get AWOL and process yourself out.  She ended up with a dishonorable discharge, disbelieved by all.


Equal Employment Opportunity Counsel (EEOC) a.k.a. Social Actions, Family Advocacy:
Theory:  Social Actions, EEOC and Family Advocacy are used to reflect the civilian agencies of EEO, Domestic Violence, Rape Crisis Intervention, and Substance Abuse.  They are responsible to educate, and train on appropriate v. inappropriate behavior, and facilitate an unbiased channel for reporting violations that are contrary to morale, good order and discipline within the military services, and assist in guiding a survivor through the process.  Each of these centers have a broad range of trained professionals (psychiatrist, substance counselors, unit commander) to oversee, and determine in (*see note below) *group meetings the best course of action for each individual cases.     

Actual:  Social Actions, EEOC and Family Advocacy Centers while it has its reporting channels to higher levels of the Social Action, etc. chain, it’s primary loyalty is to the immediate military instillation commander/chain of command and installation Inspector General.  *However, it is not unheard of or unusual for an installation commander, or IG to over ride the decision of the professional group that has been working with the military member.  Additionally, the military arm of these agencies reflecting EEO, Domestic Violence, Rape Crisis Intervention, and Substance Abuse are often facades and are less effective, efficient and minimize issues and crimes committed by military or against military members, family members or civilians.  Of the information able to be gathered reports involving military incidences are consistently higher per capita in the military then its civilian counterparts this includes; domestic violence, suicides, alcohol abuse, etc.  It can also be proposed that if statistics were accurately kept for sexual violence based on the true facts those numbers would be equally more significant then that of the civilian sector.   

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Jenny Zeller, U.S. Air Force, 1992 - present; wife of Air Force NCO, 1993-1997  "The first week married the abuse began," to a fellow military construction engineer. Four months pregnant, he threw her down the stairs. . .with 17 bruises on her back. Jenny got a protection order that was not enforceable on base, ignored by the military police until the base commander to ordered her husband from abusing her. Meanwhile, ordered into couples counseling. She kept quiet: knowing he'd beat her worse while anger management classes "just made him smarter about hiding the marks" and Family Advocacy counselors told Jenny "maybe if you cooked better, he wouldn't get so angry." He, threatened to shoot her, and is fighting a battle to stop her ex-husband from stalking her. Jenny's a counselor at the local rape crisis center - where, she says, "over half our cases are military."

June 1992, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, D. Mackey, Capt., during a conference meeting addressing sexual harassment as an aftermath of Tailhook, tells of her experience of sexual assault faces angry, and hostile 3rd degree questions from 3 Social Actions Counselors, Sept 1994 One of the same previous Social Actions Counselors refuses to take a formal complaint of sexual harassment.
   
T. Quick, Capt., 1993 felt uncomfortable about inappropriate behavior by 1 of the officers (IG) who assaulted Capt. Mackey. Capt. Quick would not come forward to Social Actions even though she taught sexual harassment awareness classes, because she “wanted to keep her career, and she had been told by numerous students in her classes that in doing the right things, they were retaliated against by long assignments away from a spouse, a bad military assignment, a refusal for an award, etc.”  

 
Hospital Personnel; (doctors or psychiatrist),
Theory: Hospital Personnel; (doctors or psychiatrist, etc.), are to provide medical, and mental, support to military members and their families.  They are equally responsible for providing guidance, and direction to the appropriate channels of dispute, and agents to assist in reporting crimes, and assisting the member and their families’ professional health care. Military medical personnel are entrusted to represent both the military and members rights, especially (mental health) and are required to follow guidelines to ensure a members protection of self incrimination due to potential illegal activity, this is often accomplished with a member’s right of protection and is done in a matter of 1 hour.

Actual:  Hospital Personnel; (doctors or psychiatrist, etc.), are afforded protections for malpractice by means of the Feres Doctrine.  Military hospital personnel answer to two leaders; senior medical leaders, but most directly to the military installation commander or IG to which they immediately serve. Military medical personnel entrusted to represent both the military and members rights, often violate this aspect of the members right due to; abuse of power, inability to be held liable, being ordered, pressured, or of not knowing the full story. Numerous horror stories of members have been reported of; being locked in psyche ward, and forced hallucinogens, and drugs against ones will, and strapped down without the availability of a call or notification to a family member, or legal representative. Labeled crazy, their claims of abuse, retaliation, etc. can be easily ignored.   It is common of the military services to label a person assaulted a “nut or a slut” to diminish its liability.
 
Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Special reports of the higher then average incompetence of military doctors has been reported in the Dayton Daily News, Ohio, 1997, and 20/20 1998.  
Blaney, Carla, 1997- present, wife of an Army surgeon, Capt., Carla caught and reported her husband’s parents for sexual abuse of her two young children, even after her in-laws indictment, it took awhile for it to dawn on her that she had previously caught her husband sexually abusing her children also, as he noted he was only examining them, as he masturbated her infant son, and had inserted a finger into the vagina of their small daughter.  Carla, was also raped by her husband, who admitted to her; he minimizes the doses of anesthetic to see how little of the drug he can administer before patients in surgery can feel him cutting on them, and that he and other military doctors check surgical charts for young patients already drugged, and naked on tables for surgery can be watched by doctors prior to surgery, the drug makes it impossible for a member to remember clearly.  Command is aware, but is moving slowly, and Carla is locked in a custody battle for her children.
   
Simone Patton, U.S. Army, 1977 - 1979, Simone, a young medic whose instructor tried to rape her, “we have to think about his career,” He was verbally reprimand and “I got a talking to."  Simone, knew there was nowhere to turn when she dated a classmate who raped her four times in one night. He tried to choke me to death.  . . . then said “don't tell anyone."
 
Tamela Cambell, Capt., U.S. Army, 1980-1991, Capt. Tamela Campbell, an Army EEO officer. Deployed to the Persian Gulf, awakened in her tent by the groping hands of the resident Air Force, Lt. Colonel and psychiatrist. In response, the Army tried to hospitalize Tamela in the psychiatric ward; persistently claimed that it was powerless to do anything, because her attacker was in the Air Force; continued to do so even when she went to the battalion commander.

Megan Cambell, Private, Army, 1997, after being assaulted, seen by military doctor who attempted to assault her again, as a result of her attempting to report the crime against the doctor she was locked in the psyche ward.  Megan’s mom, a private criminal investigator demanded to see her daughter, and demanded all the facts.  Upon seeing her daughter she was appalled at the number of women in the same situation, “drugged up” and those who wanted help but could not get out.
  
Sue Hauweller, Navy, Lt. Commander, assaulted by a subordinate and a dental assistant, when she reported it, she was retaliated against by her senior medical officials, who held her against her will one year after her military release.
 
Saum, AF Cadet, raped by an upperclassman as 30 other cadets looked on, including a AF officer. After being beaten unconscious 3rd times and thought dead by the AF officer turned away. E. suffering from anorexia following the rape, and assaults was command directed for a mental health evaluation for 3 days without telling her why. At her release from the psyche ward she faced a disciplinary panel charging her with insubordination.  After retaining a lawyer E. was given convalescent leave.  In 1995 meeting with E.’s parents, and lawyer with Secretary Widnall, E was asked to return noting her achievement.  E. noted if she went back she would die, Secretary Widnall replied, “how about an airplane ride.”
         
Mackey, D., Capt. 1992, threats of retaliation, and control by locking them in the psyche ward. Capt. Mackey advised Lt. Colonel, assistant IG of a member’s right, and need to initiate paperwork to protect both member and AF. The Lt. Colonel, IG ignored the advise as they arranged the psyche evaluation.  Lt. Colonel states, “that’s what I love about this job, I can do anything I like!”   


Legal Office a.k.a. (SJAG) Staff Judge Advocate Generals Office;
(JAG) Judge Advocate General; Prosecution,
Theory: Legal Office a.k.a. (SJAG) Staff Judge Advocate Generals Office;
(JAG) Judge Advocate General; Prosecution, are to provide services to represent the government claims against personnel under suspicion of crimes. They are equally responsible for following are equivalent and related processes and procedures to mirror the civilian court system. They are guided and directed to follow ethical mandates of their profession similar to civilian attorneys and judges.  The prosecutors chain of command within its professional ranks are separated from the defense attorney’s and are clearly noted throughout the military services thus adhering to no conflict of interest. Members of the legal profession are also to assist in reporting, and assisting the member in reporting a crime, and thereby maintaining the morale, good order and discipline of the military service.  SJAG/JAG are responsible for advising senior leadership, unit commanders, and 1st Sgt.'s of; offenses that should meet courts-martial boards, negotiate and determine cases to be turned over for civilian prosecution, suggest fair and equitable punishment for offenses which can be dealt with by non-judicial punishment.  

Actual: Legal Office a.k.a. (SJAG) Staff Judge Advocate Generals Office;
(JAG) Judge Advocate General; Prosecutors and Area Defense Counsels (ADC), The courts-martial, special courts-martial, jury trials vs. bench trials, while in appearance mimics civilian cases this is where it stops.  If asked of a military member off the record of the SJAG, JAG, or ADC, can they be trusted, the answer would be no!  While the ADC and JAG systems appear to be separate, promotion recommendations of military lawyers come from the same one hierarchy/leadership.  Additionally, ADCs are generally the newest attorneys to the military, and if they are of any worth they are promoted over to become a JAG/SJAG.  ADCs are notorious for sharing client privileged obtained information with SJAG/JAG prosecutors, despite professional ethics.  As in all channels of dispute/units, JAGs owe their promotions to keeping their bosses happy and winning cases, and predominantly to the military installation commander and IG to whom they immediately serve.  As, in military grand juries determination of findings, as well as jury selection of all the court, and non-punitive actions proceedings, can be influenced, determined and over ridden by the senior most officer on the military instillation determines who selects who will sit on the jury.  With such authority in the hands of leadership are places a serious concern for conflict of interest between the installation commander’s wishes and fair and impartial trial or non-punitive action of a member.  It is especially so when all installations members promotions, careers, training opportunities depend on getting the endorsement of the installation commander, IG.

It has been noted SJAGs, and JAGs have minimized and ignored claims of abuse, sexual assault and oppressive acts brought by women, and minorities.  It maybe in part that according to one Reserve JAG rape in the UCMJ is considered a capital crime, and could warrant the death penalty.  However, the failure to prosecute abuse cases of a sexual nature could be due to; feelings women should not be in the military, failures of “the chain of command” to lead by example, and the soft training for the military mission which includes the demoralization of an enemy, acts of rape, maiming, and brutality are included in this training.  Traits that once trained in can not be easily turned off.  So, the next best thing to do is to minimize the cases.      

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Michelle Baker, U.S. Air Force, 1991 - 1996, Michelle was attacked by an officer, while her husband was on temporary duty.  She testified against him in three or four investigations, and the pattern was always the same. Michelle was traumatized by court proceedings when her confidential psychiatric records were made available to defense counsel. Despite positive DNA tests and his admission of guilt, her attacker was convicted of adultery, not rape, was fined and given 8 days of hard labor. Michelle’s marriage broke down after she sought Congressional help because of the pressure from her husband command asked him We hear your wife's going congressional on us, what's going on?
  
1989, Mackey, D., Capt., Spangdahlem AB, Germany,  A senior NCO told her new military female recruits were being targeted to get drunk, then raped.  Capt. Mackey reported it to the JAG, who refused to investigate noting, “we won’t prosecute that”, even attempts to advise women on the base failed.

1997, West Point male cadet is falsely charged with rape of a female cadet, despite the Article 32 (grand jury) facts of numerous witness’, civilian and military finds evidence that the female cadet began non-consensual sexual relations with the sleeping male cadet.  Witnesses testified the male cadet left the party early and alone, went to bed with plans of going fishing in the morning. Additionally, the drunk female cadet was prior to the incident “hitting on the men in the room”.  Army command and legal pursued this case and additionally charged the male cadet with an “offensive act in front of another” since his roommate was asleep in another bunk.  The male cadet was barely acquitted of these charges but his career is marked to his detriment.

Kelly Hoyle, Capt., Coast Guard, former Army. Raped by an Army warrant officer is told she did not act enough like a victim to warrant prosecution of the case.

Julie Clemm, Lt., AF, after reporting sexual assault was interrogated for 14 hours and refused a legal counsel.

July 1998, Army; J.E. and Private J.M. raped and sodomized by a drill Sgt. JE and JM are threatened with charges against them for sodomy and adultery.  J.E. had washed out of basic training, a civilian  was being held against her will.

Crista Davis, Lt. Barksdale AFB, sexual and racially harassed by senior officers, she’s bogusly charged with crimes mounting 55 years in prison among them; not putting the Christmas Party together well enough (5 yrs), not typing a list of officers names (5 yrs), etc.

Kelly Flinn, Lt., facing adultery charges and a courts-martial and prior to the selection of the jury, General Fogleman, AF Chief of Staff on TV states to Congress that Kelly Flinn is guilty of the charges.    

Mackey, Capt., 1992, witnessed the IG order the SJAG to reprimand both Area Defense Counsel and JAG counsels for proposing the action to rescind punishment to a person unjustly and unfairly punished for an action he did not do.  Punishment stood via IG’s order.  


(ADC) Area Defense Counsel; Defense Attorney;
Theory: (ADC) Area Defense Counsel; Defense Attorney are to provide professional, competent legal counsel to its member.  They are equally responsible for maintaining ethical and moral requirements of their profession. As such ADCs are to provide individual military members guidance, and direction to the appropriate channels of dispute, and agents to assist in reporting, and assisting the member in getting a fair trial, or legal advise in matters effecting their professional career.    

Actual: (ADC) Area Defense Counsel; Defense Attorney are not trusted in the military if a member needs their service.  If ever asked of a military member, who has been in the service awhile if they needed an attorney, privately many will advise to seek civilian legal counsel. As noted in the JAG Actual: the lines of ethical and moral obligation between these two areas are unable to be clearly seen due to one senior leadership has influence over; promotions, assignments, training, etc. The ADC does serve the member, however, the perception is similar to the appointment of an attorney to a defendant by the court, and you get what you pay for.    

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
July 1998, Private J.M., raped and sodomized by drill Sgt. threatened with charges, talked once to defense counsel, numerous calls were ignored by her counsel as she was isolated, intimidated and threatened.

Hills, he was tortured and during the course of the events he was injured, when his wife attempted to get assistance through the base, the family began to be harassed, cornered with guns drawn the military accused the wife phoning in bomb threats. After having been assigned military legal counsel and numerous conversations with their counsel, their legal counsel was transferred to the prosecution side and was used against them.


Unit Commander, 1st Sgt., etc.:
Theory: Unit Commander, 1st Sgt., etc.: are to provide a balance between the US military service and its member, provided the guidance of the rights, regulations, and laws set down by US laws, treaties, and the US Constitution in support of the national objectives.  Commanders and 1st Sgt.'s are each channels of dispute, and are equally responsible for providing guidance and direction to the other appropriate channels of dispute, and agents to assist in reporting, and assisting the member and thereby maintaining the morale, good order and discipline of the military service.   

Actual: Unit Commander, 1st Sgt., etc., military commanders and 1st Sgt.'s have a wide and varied field of discretionary authority.  These discretionary authority in its most severe forms can prefer criminal charges to a courts-martial resulting in prison or even potential death sentences (as mandated in rape cases), in lesser instances their authority can result in demotions, forfeiture of pay, restriction to the military installation, mandatory; mental heath evaluations, substance abuse training, and counseling. Additionally, with a commanders or 1st Sgt.'s recommendation a member can be released from military service for numerous reasons. Unit Commander, 1st Sgt., etc., as all military members have a chain of command and often is strongly influenced by the opinions of their leadership, however, they are more directly influenced by the guidance of the military installation commander or IG. In each case previously stated the installation commander and, or IGs influence has not been totally expressed.  The reason in part of the ability of the installation commander or IG to rule the installation as they see fit, is because in the authority and influence these two positions have over all persons on their installation.  Promotions, training, decorations, etc. can be stopped or awarded based on the endorsements received by these two positions within the chain of command.  

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Robin Riley-Sloane, U.S. Army, 1976-1981, Robin military career began and ended with assault. Raped at Fort Jackson in 1976, she went to her 1st Sgt. He yelled, you've got your orders just get the hell out of here.
At another assignment in Germany, her first sergeant cornered her, molested her, and threatened her; she began to have panic attacks when she had to go to work.

_K., Airman, Air Force after suffering a broken arm in training was raped by her 1st Sgt., beaten, and threatened that if she told he would take her back to the desert where he’d raped her, rape her again and leave her for dead.  

Therese Napier, U.S. Army Reserves, 1990-1996; U.S. Army, 1996-1997; spouse of Air Force NCO 1991-1996, Therese's married to a senior NCO in the Air Force: had scars on my face that he put there. Therese terrified, covered up for her husband to save his career - until he raped and sodomized their two daughters. In the wake of that marriage Therese decided to transition from reserves to active duty, in training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, a guy bought a group of them a round of drinks and that was it . . . the next thing she woke up to raping her.  Instead of providing counseling or pressing charges, Therese's command deployed to Grafenwoehr Army Base in Germany, with instructions "tell them what happened to you." For ten months Therese was ignored, demoted, and subjected to constant harassment: "there was an NCO that drew a vulva on the inside of my helmet." Finally, when Therese threatened to call her congressman, "I was out of the Army and on a plane within 72 hours."  “The Army raped me over and over and over again."

Linda Schroder, U.S. Army, 1976 - 1979, Linda in the Army less than 3 months learned of a group of instructors at Fort Dix who competed for 'points' based on how many women they raped. She was targeted by a Spc Edmonds. She refused Edmonds advances, he threaten to flunk her in his course, and threatened to rape her - but another instructor offered her a ride home after an evening out, tried to kiss her, and raped her at knife point. "When it was over, he got dressed, thanked me, and left."  Linda reported Edmonds' threats against her (too deeply afraid and ashamed to report the rape itself), "the battalion commander told him to kill that bitch, meaning me" in order to save his career. In the next few weeks Linda was attacked while running on the track, presented with a retaliatory Article 32, and told ""everyone was looking for me and they had orders to shoot to kill."  Ultimately, Edmonds was fined and reduced in rank - while Linda now struggles with lifelong PTSD.

Sue Hauwiller, U.S. Navy 1990-1997, U.S. Air Force 1980-1983, A board-certified perodontist, Sue was working on a patient when her assistants inserted his knee between her legs.  "He did it because he knew the patient was there, and that I wouldn't say anything in front of the patient."  When she reported the assault was the moment the reprisals began: she was refused convalescent leave for recommended surgery, given negative fitness reports, midyear counseling statements, and "tried to force me to work as a dental technician." Finally, Sue opted to take retirement - only to be slapped with false charges of stealing dental instruments. Cleared by a board of inquiry, she had been retained in the Navy against her will for nearly a year.  

Maria Laguna, U.S. Army, 1995-1997, Maria’s boyfriend a fellow soldier called from overseas. Maria unable to report since had being drugged and placed in the psyche ward after being sodomized by a fellow private at Camp Humphries Korea. Maria was sent home on compassionate leave, but told by commanders she would be testifying at a court-martial on her return. Upon her returned, her rapist had been quietly chaptered out without a trial, and she was transferred to Camp Casey- where the male-female ratio is 20 to 1, and it was known for higher rates of sexual assaults, harassed daily, even in the presents of her boyfriend.  When she requested discharge, her command told her she had to sign a sheet declaring that she would not sue the Army. Maria was released only after contacting STAMP, who alerted Army Chief of Staff, Reimer and congressional liaisons until Maria was out of harm's way, with an honorable discharge.

Tammy Anderson, spouse of Navy officer, 1984-1996, "How many times can you throw your hands up in frustration and hit your wife until it's not an accident any more?" Tammy describes years of "psychological warfare"  - including a rape in her own home by a 19-year-old seaman, tolerated both by her husband and by his commander, who told Tammy He's so young, he's got his whole life ahead of him: why would you want to screw that up?  The emotional abuse escalated until culminated in physical abuse and death threats: You know, no one would even know if you were dead.  Tammy is currently in hiding from her abuser, and - like many of STAMP's members escaping an abusive relationship - struggling to support her children.

Annette McQuinn, U.S. Army, 1978-1984; civilian wife of Army officer, 1979 - 1996
Annette's nightmare began in basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where she and another women were gang raped in a dumpster. "Our commander looked at us and said You don't look like you've been raped. Go clean up and get back to work.  After that it was open season on us." Her and her roommate were randomly and continually raped in their barracks room. Annette finally succumbed and signed the discharge papers that had been offered her since day one.  Homeless and vulnerable, Annette, accepted the proposal of Curtis James Taylor, a man she had met at the base hospital: "He said he'd take care of me, and no one would ever hurt me." On their wedding night, he brought two of her rapist’s home and "forced me to have sex with them repeatedly." Thus began 17 years of terror in Oklahoma; Meinz, Germany; and, finally, Ohio, where "the abuse got worse" and she found the strength to leave him.  Annette tried approaching Curtis' commanders, but he had already spread the word that his wife had "a history of making things up." Her life and psyche battered by post-traumatic stress disorder, Annette also lost her children - and is now being asked by her ex-husband for child support.

Stephanie Lamb, U.S. Army, 1982-1992, In the Army, as a military police officer four years, she was raped by her first sergeant, on deployment in Germany. "He got an Article 15, some reduction in rank, and some loss of salary," "Every day I was in the Army I was harassed. Officers, co-workers, folks I was trying to police." After the rape she was given some compassionate leave, she was expected to go back to work as if nothing had changed: "I had to see him every day . . .I got no counseling, no support." After Stephanie was rotated back to the States, her attacker raped a young civilian in Germany "and I don't even know if he was punished for that", Stephanie was sent to the hostile post, Johnson Island near Hawaii, where there were two women to every 100 men. She had to get out. Now, Stephanie is, like many survivors, getting 100% disability from the VA for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Mackey, D., Capt. 1992, advised Lt. Colonel and assistant IG of a member’s rights and need to initiate paperwork to protect him due to his escalating family issue. Repeating this information as Lt. Colonel, IG is on phone arranging for mandated psyche evaluation, Lt. Colonel removes phone from ear and states, “that’s what I love about this job, I can do anything I like!” as he glares at me.  Hospital took member without the generation of rights to protect him.  

A unique tool unit commanders and 1st Sgts have at their disposal is non-judicial punishment a.k.a. Article 15, captain's mast, or administrative hearing - a tool used by one commander to legitimmizes them as prosecutor, defense attorney, investigator and executioner in determining a members guilt or innocence of a crime.  The issue of Non-judicial punishment becomes a problem with felony charges or escalating patterns of behavior are being minimized by the military senior authorities and is handled with an Non-judicial punishment rather then criminal charges.  Additionally, this method of minimal punishment regardless of the crime does not mandate disclosure of the facts of the crime, or to agencies monitoring serious and repetitive crimes such as; stalkers, sex offenders, and domestic violence. Given non-judicial punishment does however benefit one of a serious crime, it serves to provide privacy of records for the guilty party from being obtained by the survivor. (Privacy Act of 1974, 5 USC 552a) see military classification of information.  Inconsistencies have additionally been documented by the Dayton Daily News as well as Representative Maloney's office.

From STAMP files:  
Lt. Kelly Flinn - General Fogleman, AF Chief of Staff in a speech to Congress stated prior to Lt. Flinn’s jury selection, that Flinn was guilty, Fogleman was a senior appeal authority.
Lt. Crista Davis, Wing Commander noted she would be found guilty as well, and received non-judicial punishment as retaliation for reporting sexual harassment and racial discrimination.
Army officer Jonni Manning was given the rare option of turning the offenders over to the police, but opted for military authority - only to see her attackers let off with a reprimand.  
Capt. Dorothy Mackey knows that her assailant, a full colonel, retired with full benefits; the lieutenant received a non-judicial punishment, reprimand for indecent assault (a felony offense), despite the AF maintain the crimes never happened.
Annette Erickson's husband, convicted of 17 of charges including 10 for assaulting his wife, served less than 50 days in the brig and a temporary pay cut.
Diane Washington's Navy assailant was convicted of assaulting her by knowingly infecting her with HIV: he received six months the brig, she is under a death sentence


Military Police; (SP) Security Police, (MP) Military Police, Shore Patrol, etc.:
Theory:  Military police on military installations are often divided up into two sections; law enforcement and operations, and are seen as the immediate strong arm, protector and maintainer of peace for; military personnel and their families, facilities, and resources.  The Law Enforcement is established to mirror the civilian law enforcement.  However, there are clear differences. The Operations areas of military police seeks to protect facilities, property and resources used to maintain the operational readiness of military services.

Actual:  As like the other channels, military police have it’s own hierarchy to report to, with it’s primary loyalty to the installation commander, and Inspector General.

Cases from Files and Headline News;
Dorothy Hanson, 1942, during her on post rape, 2 MP’s interrupted her assailant as he beat her in the head with a rock 3xs, stabbed her vaginally with a knife asked, “what are your intentions with her?”  Dorothy dazed, unable to speak for herself the MP’s had her assailant take her to the clinic.  A nurse, and doctors refused to treat her, only providing her with sedatives, had her assailant escort her back to the barracks.

Dana Garza, spouse of Army captain, 1988-1993; restraining orders are unenforceable on military installations: Dana learned that the hard way during the final two years of her first marriage. "One time it got so bad the neighbors called the MPs; they took him off to cool off, brought him back and said It's his house, you move. "

Jane Strand  U.S. Marine Corps, 1987 - 1993, "Women were getting raped every day at 29 Palms," Jane’s first duty station. "And there was really no way to report it." Jane was raped by an MP who took her for a blind date in the desert.

Robin Riley-Sloane, U.S. Army, 1976-1981, And as her tour of duty came to a close, at the Presidio in San Francisco, an ex-boyfriend broke into her house and raped her: "I reported it to the MPs, but nothing happened to him."

Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 1996, Military female Sgt. is beaten on an off base housing area by her civilian husband.  Military police can’t arrest him because he’s a civilian, yet, civilian police can’t arrest him because he beat her on a federal instillation.   

Stephanie Lamb, U.S. Army, 1982-1992, see details above. Army military police officer raped by military police officer first sergeant, on deployment in Germany. "He got an *Article 15, some reduction in rank, and some loss of salary," who went on to rape a young civilian in Germany "
*note Article 15s are protected by the privacy act of 1974, 5 USC 552a, and is thereby prohibited from being released to any party without the permission of the individual it was taken against.  Article 15s also are not criminal in nature and are not mandated disclosure to national watchdog institutions for such cases as; stalkers, domestic violence, sexual perpetrators, etc.


Criminal Investigations; OSI, CID, NSI, etc.,
Theory: Criminal Investigations; OSI, CID, NSI, etc., are to provide to investigate criminal cases, interrogate suspects and witness’ and present the body of evidence to military prosecutors a.k.a. SJAG, and JAGs in support of the US government.  They are equally responsible for providing guidance and direction to the appropriate channels of dispute, and agents to assist in reporting, and assisting the member in reporting illegal conduct, and thereby maintaining the morale, good order and discipline within the military service.   

Actual: Criminal Investigations; OSI, CID, NSI, etc., are not sought out for assistance by military members. OSI, CID, etc. are distinct in their dress since they often do not wear their military uniform so that they can not be intimidated by those of higher rank they may have to interrogate.  OSI, CID, etc. work for the military installation commander, IG to which they immediately serve.  Tactics of OSI, and CID are often identified with large sting operations requiring people to give up names to take the pressure off.   

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Rose Black, 1996, Sgt. Army, raped by a Sgt. Major, the room was so bloody as if a pig had been slaughtered.  Rose silence by her assailant who promised he’d have Klan buddies get her and her family. Internal injuries so severe Rose was forced to have a hysterectomy.  Some CID investigators told Rose there was enough evidence to get the guy, but command would not do it. Rose was transferred to Fort Polk, LA known for its higher rate of hate crime and harassment. Rose sought support to prosecute her case, even though the Army let her assailant retire late 1997.   

Cheryl Corey, U.S. Air Force, 1991-1995, Cheryl one of the first entrants admitted into of AWAC fliers: "I heard from day one, I remember the good old days when women were for . . . . " Deployed to Turkey, she was assaulted by a full colonel who’d flown a mission with her unit: neither Cheryl's supervisor, her lieutenant, or Air Force OSI held the colonel accountable . "Two lieutenant colonels pulled my witnesses aside, and selectively allowed a few to speak to investigators." Her assailant now runs the largest base in Italy, while the general from the base in Turkey is now at the Pentagon. The general briefed everybody, after I filed my complaint: “you know how to get rid of the situation."  

Capt. Tamela Campbell, an Army EEO officer, witnessed CID agents laugh and make inappropriate comments about women who had been raped arrived at the base hospital for treatment.

Sue-Jin Collier, U.S. Military Academy, 1995-1996, Sue-Jin at West Point was raped by an upperclassman claiming it was consensual. Rules governing sex between freshmen and upperclassmen, her attacker quietly resigned, CID concluded, "There is no evidence of assault."  Su-Jin continue her career at the academy, only to be raped a year later by another cadet, and ex-boyfriend who stole possessions from her room.  CID noted again, the sex was consensual, even though medical authorities found in her "all the classic signs of a rape victim." The military convening authority/judge at West Point's administrative hearing told Su-Jin "she was at fault because she went to his room and she did not scream loud enough." Throughout her ordeal, until her resignation from the academy, Su-Jin was subject to threats and harassment: "This teaches new female cadets that they had better shut up."

Stacey Tylor, Cadet West Point, 1993-1994, Stacey 17, raped by an upperclassman who threatened her with a gun. Keeping the trauma to her self because, she felt she wouldn’t be believed, besides they teach you to “suck it up, and drive on soldier”.  She spoke up when she witnessed harassment of another woman under her charge by her assailant, only to be accused of Satanic worship, called delusional, and harassed by the command who called her the “troublemaker”.  Stacey left West Point without seeing her assailant dealt with. With the establishment of the 1-800 number after the scandal at Aberdeen, Stacey called CID in hopes to have her case appropriately investigated.  Contrary CID agents harassed, and were abrasive and hostile towards Stacey and her family in the follow up on her case.  Her case still remains unresolved.    

Lt. Julie Clemm's, Lt., 14-hour interrogation from Air Force OSI and denied counsel;
Sgt. Stephanie Visser's racist CID report, which followed questioning in which she was asked the size of her rapist's penis;

Mary Zbacnic learning that CID never actually investigated her harassment charges; and recent reports from Aberdeen of agents trying to intimidate young women into signing false statements.

Capt. Mackey's, OSI simply did a cursory investigation but did not press criminal charges against her assailants; the Inspector General, a Colonel and his assistant, Lt. Colonel.


Installation Commanders and (IGs) Inspector General:
Theory: Installation Commanders (Chain of Command) and (IGs) Inspector General are to provide the balance between US and military regulations and law, and the rights of their members.  They are responsible for providing guidance, direction and resolution to the appropriate agencies and personnel involved in the channels of dispute. They provide, enforce, and mandate equal protections of the regulations and laws for all parties regardless of rank, sex, or cultural, religious differences.  The IG is the formal military services complaint system obligated to meet and maintain the morale, good order and discipline of the military service by adhering to all laws, treaties and regulations.   

Actual: Installation Commanders (Chain of Command) and (IGs) Inspector General have wide and absolute discretionary authority.  They answer to members of the major command within the Chain of Command. They are in many cases the final decision makers, and often can get very vindictive if members take alternate routes to find relief for disputes.  Additionally, IGs as will all agents, and agencies insist that a complaint must process through the Chain of Command.  The official Chain of Command begins at the lowest possible level, and works through each progressive level, throughout the level intensive and bureaucratic heavy system. In meeting the internal requirements of resolving an issue at the lowest possible level, the time wasted maneuvering through the system will often result in the loss of; obtaining critical evidence, time, opportunity to seek other options of redress such as law suit, etc.    

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
WPAFB, OH 1990, Male officer rapes female officer, IG directs the SJAG, to have the male officer resign his commission without penalty of punishment.  

Jenny Zeller, U.S. Air Force, 1992 - present; wife of Air Force NCO, 1993-1997
"The first abuse began the week after we were married," Jenny says of the fellow construction engineer she married early in her Air Force career. "I was four months pregnant and he threw me down the stairs. . I had 17 bruises on my back, he didn't have a mark on him." Jenny's order of protection was not enforced on base and was ultimately dropped, after the base commander reported to the police that he had been ordered to stop.

Cheryl Corey, U.S. Air Force, 1991-1995, AWAC crew assaulted by colonel, and with the help of other senior officers, OSI and base general, who briefed everybody, after I filed my complaint: “you know how to get rid of the situation."  

Mary Lymon, Major, AF, 1997, Mary was being sexually harassed by her leadership which resulted in her loss of position and promotion. Mary obtained an attorney, Jim Klamiski who guided her actions.  In an appeal of her case to the AF Military Board of Records Correction, Jim learned and proved the AF had conspired against Mary by placing a biased member of Mary’s chain of command on the board that reviewed her records for appeal.  Mary won the case, received back pay and allowances, and received her promotion.     

Mackey, Capt. assaulted by the IG, and his assistant an IG investigation was done.  In that investigation 9 military members noted a hostile work environment and sexual harassment.  IG changed Mackey’s taped testimony in written form, then destroyed the tapes, finding against Mackey noting inconsistencies which AF created.

Clemm, Lt. AF, Clemm’s testimony was also changed from time she gave it to IG investigators to the time it was transcribed, again finding against Clemm.  

Michelle Baker, U.S. Air Force, 1991 - 1996, of the officer who raped her, “he could get your trust”, pattern was always the same found herself traumatized by court proceedings; confidential psychiatric records were available assailants counsel, despite positive DNA tests, and his admission of guilt, attacker was convicted of adultery, not of rape, fined and sentenced to 8 days of hard labor. Michelle filed complaints with Congress based on case findings, her husband’s command put pressure on him, their marriage split due to the pressure.  

Wells, David, Lt., 1998, Lt. Wells, as a commander called noting he defended a subordinate from unjust prosecution, and for doing so he was removed from his position, refused transfers into 17 positions many which he is qualified for, and is being isolated and ostracized from his peers.  

Maria Laguna, U.S. Army, 1995-1997, Maria’s boyfriend a fellow soldier called from overseas. Maria,  unable to report what was going on since she had been drugged and sodomized by a fellow private at Camp Humphries in South Korea. Maria sent home on compassionate leave, told by commanders upon her return would testifying at a court-martial. Upon her returned,  her rapist had been quietly chaptered out without a trial, and she herself was transferred to more hostile post, Camp Casey- where the male-female ratio is 20 to 1, known for higher rates of sexual assaults, harassed daily, even in the presents of her boyfriend.  When she requested discharge, her command told her she had to sign a sheet declaring that she would not sue the Army. Maria was released after contacting STAMP, who alerted Army Chief of Staff, Reimer and congressional liaisons until Maria was out of harm's way, with an honorable discharge.

Tammy Anderson, spouse of Navy officer, 1984-1996, "How many times can you throw your hands up in frustration and hit your wife until it's not an accident any more?" Tammy describes years of "psychological warfare"  - including a rape in her own home by a 19-year-old seaman, tolerated both by her husband and by his commander, who told Tammy He's so young, he's got his whole life ahead of him: why would you want to screw that up?  The emotional abuse escalated until culminated in physical abuse and death threats: You know, no one would even know if you were dead.  Tammy is currently in hiding from her abuser, and - struggling to support her children.


Major Commands and Commanders,  (IGs) Inspector General, and
Theory: Major Commands and Commanders,  (IGs) Inspector General are to provide a objective, review and appeal authority for lower commands.  Equally they are charged with the responsible for providing guidance, and direction to the lower commands ensuring all federal, and military laws are followed.  

Actual: Major Commands and Commanders,  (IGs) Inspector General are comparable to puppet regimes when sought out for an objective and impartial review of decisions concerning lower cases. Major Commands and Commanders,  (IGs) Inspector General take direction from senior command and the Chief of Staff, Secretaries of the Services, and DoD.   

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Booze News-Barstoolers, Dave Clemm, West Point Graduate, father of Lt. Julie Clemm, Intercepts the Booze News, a secret internal news letter of male fliers, and senior officers, predominantly AF Academy graduates extolling the virtues of drinking hard, screwing women, and flying hard.  Julie’s assailant was a barstooler and protected by senior members of this organization, including AF IG, General Swope.   
Admiral Mackie, 1996, relieved from command of Okinawa only after he publicly states that the 3 servicemen charge with the rape and brutal beating of a 12 year old, could have used a prostitute, instead.

Cheryl Corey, U.S. Air Force, 1991-1995, AWAC crew assaulted by colonel, colonel was never punished, his boss a general was promoted to the Pentagon.  

Mackey, Capt., 1992 as AF H.q. Section Commander, Inspector General and Assistant Inspector General are her assailants.  Sexual assault, harassment and terrorizing her go on for a year as she tries to find any assistance from senior officials, agencies, etc.  Denied assistance and in fear of her life Mackey resigns her career.

General Faine, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, Air Force 1992 -1995, Faine in a briefings had made the following comments; to a man wearing a pink shirt, “only fags where pink”, and to a woman wearing a red outfit, a reference that she was a whore and to get out of his sight. Statements were taken, and the incident never was dealt with. Faine was promoted and moved to the Pentagon.     

General Ralston, Air Force, 1996, Ralston is questioned about a relationship he had while separated from his wife.  Ralston looses his bid for the Joint Chief position, however, he is maintained in the AF, despite under UCMJ, military members are engaged in an adulterous relationship unless and only if the marriage has been finalized through divorce.

Fran Blair, U.S. Navy, 1991-1993, "I can't remember his name," says Fran about the Army NCO who assaulted her on a NATO base in Naples, Italy. "I can remember what he looks like." She also remembers the retaliatory harassment she suffered when she complained. "The investigator they assigned asked, was I undressing in front of the guy who raped me?" Eventually she was brought before the entire Army chain of command at that base, and berated by the highest-ranking Italian officer at the base. Since leaving the Navy in 1993, Fran has found it difficult to find support even from Vet Centers and the VA: one counselor said men are like that.

Rose Black, 1996, Sgt. Army, raped by an Army Sgt. Major, the room so bloody that it appeared as if a pig had been slaughtered, threatened and silenced with retaliation by Sgt. Major’s Klu Klux Klan buddies. CID (Army criminal investigators) had enough evidence but the command refused to prosecute. The victim was retaliated against by transferring her to location known for higher rate of hate crime and harassment, separated from family, assailant allowed to retire late 1997, Rose requested of Sec of Army to bring him back on duty for prosecution.   


DoD (IGs) Inspector General, Service Secretaries:
Theory: DoD (IGs) Inspector General, Service Secretaries are to provide senior guidance, and direction for the military services, and provides a senior level review of decisions, and appeals of decisions by lower commands. They are charged with being objective and equally responsible for providing guidance and direction to the appropriate channels of dispute, and agents to assist in reporting, and assisting the member in resolving issues and thereby maintaining the morale, good order and discipline of the military service.   

Actual: DoD (IGs) Inspector General, Service Secretaries when sought out for assistance either ignore the cases often disregarding abuses, and or in part or whole responsible for the retaliatory actions against the member by lower levels of command. No matter the circumstance the chain of command expects to adhere to the movement step by step through all levels of command, until the individual arrives at the senior most level.  This process can and has taken years, in which time evidence is lost, assailants are reassigned, the issue becomes moot.   Exception, DoD Secretary Perry apologizes to the Okinawans for the brutal attack on a 12 year old, shortly thereafter, Perry resigns.

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Crista Davis, Lt. Barksdale AFB, reports the crimes to DoD knowing she can not get a fair hearing below, DoD turns the case back to AF who then prefers 55 years of charges against the survivor.

E. Saum, AF Cadet, raped by upperclassman as 30 looked on, Three years after the crime, in 1995 meeting with Secretary Widnall, E is offered an airplane ride.

Mackey, Capt., AF, Three years after her assault, learning the AF destroyed evidence in her case refused meeting with Sec Widnall 1995.

Rose Black, 1996, Sgt. Army, raped by a Sgt. Major, threatened Klan retaliation, despite evidence command refused to prosecute him, retaliation by transfer to hostile base, assailant allowed to retire late 1997, Rose requested of Sec of Army to bring him back on for prosecution, DoD response “this was not a significant enough crime to warrant the return to duty.”


Commander and Chief, President
Theory:  Commander in Chief is the final appeal authority and is suppose to provide objective leadership and moral direction and guidelines to military members.  As head diplomat, and civilian liaison to the military the Commander in Chief is responsible for setting the tone, and provides guidance and direction to the appropriate channels of dispute, and agents to assist in reporting, and assisting the member and thereby maintaining the morale, good order and discipline of the military service.   

Actual: Commander in Chief has not assisted in any case that has come to my attention to include the 4700 cases documented since 1972 by Okinawians of abuses against their people.  Laws and treaties actually prohibit accountability by providing immunity clauses.   

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Mackey, Capt., AF, Request appeal intervention by the President numerous times noting AF destruction of evidence, request returned to Air Force for review.
Stephanie Calendar, US Army Reserve 1988-1992, Michigan National Guard 1993-1995, Years of racial slurs such as “Jap” and sexual assaults both physically i.e. “pussy” and being grabbed by her breasts, in the crotch, and raped she has  gone to the President with no assistance.


Congressional Complaints
Theory: Congressional Complaints are available to give an alternative channel to provide the member of military service as an unbiased means of review of military procedures. Congressional Complaints are also under scrutiny in relationship to the time in which the complaint must be answered.  It is perceived to be a leverage when all other areas of channel for dispute fail.    

Actual: Congressional Complaints are leverages, however, the military member is subjected to internal retaliation for utilizing this external channel of dispute.  Additionally, Congressional Complaints are often sent to the offending parties to answer the complaint, in which case the incident is minimized and often denied.  Most person I have come in contact hundreds, with have placed Congressional complaints with numerous representatives, most do not get any response.  Of those who get responses the letter defers to the military’s authority and diminishes the crimes, and does not even refer to the accountability factor.  

Cases from files and, or Headline News;
Mackey, Capt. 1994 Requested intervention from Senators Metzenbaum, Glenn and DeWine, and numerous Congresspersons.  
Black, Rose, SSgt, Army, filed a complaint with her Senator and received no assistance.

Stephanie Calendar, Army and at last contact was still trying to get intervention.


Final Paragraph: While the military hierarchy notes its strong hold on military personnel issues is largely necessary due to the unique mission it has the unfortunate truth is that the vary abuses which the military states it’s structure protects against is the same structure that is driving these violations and abuses to the surface and into public scrutiny.  It is the structure of the system and acts committed against its own, civilians and foreign cultures which is destroying the need to maintain the morale, good order, and discipline.

Senator requests
As evidence mounts, the persuasiveness of abuse by military personnel is clear: the  testimonies of STAMP's members match the factual information supplied by the VA, the Pentagon, and numerous academic studies. What is also crystal clear is that the military cannot, by its very nature,
discipline and investigate itself.

Therefore, STAMP proposes a permanent body separate from the Dept. of Justice - to be called for the purposes of discussion Independent Investigative Agency  (IIA) - a checks and balance, and a watchdog body which would oversee, investigate, initiate charges, and review cases arising out of the military services. The separateness from the Dept. of Justice stems from cases (Stubbs, Colon, Correy, Mackey) and the fact that the Justice Department represents the DoD, military institutions, and its members in cases and thereby due to conflict of interest can not and has refused to represent the interest of the survivors.

What follows is an action plan designed to provide survivors/families access to legitimate counseling, investigative, enforcement capacities of the US military and civilian law enforcement agencies pursuant to the rights acknowledged and established by the US Constitution, UCMJ, various international governing bodies and treaties.   

This action plan is based on the vision of AIMS:  Accountability In Military Services, personal accountability and liability of individual or individuals responsible for illegal and oppressive conduct or acts.

The purpose of this action plan is to legitimately and viably address the current wave of oppressive and illegal behavior, cases, surfacing throughout the military services, and DoD.  The plan provides a safe environment for survivors to report their cases, through establishing an organization which is separate from the individuals and institution involved.  This plan establishes an alternative agency (IIA) due to survivors who in years past, and present whose charges have been;  ignored, denied or dismissed, inhumanly institutionalized and forced narcotics against one’s will, re-brutalized by agents and agencies empowered to protect, killed/murdered, and, or criminal violations which have been dismissed by US courts and internal agreements due to blanket laws of protection of offender(s).


Why an independent agency?

From STAMP case histories, research and world headline news, experience shows the military is unable and unwilling to maintain equal, and judicially unbiased standards conduct by means of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), and the laws of humanity. A few examples illustrate the problem:

Reporting.  Despite the toothless Military Whistleblower's Protection Act, examples of retaliation are universal, overt or covert retaliation is (SOP) (Standard Operating Procedure).

From STAMP files:  
Mary Zbacnik went through three months of having her tires slashed and her trailer broke into.

Faye Vliegel first began to manifest signs of PTSD after years of harassment in the Air Force National Guard, her command told her boyfriend to break up with her if he hoped to be promoted.

Sara Swanke, recipient of performance awards, was suddenly about to be chaptered out on charges of fraudulent enlistment.  

Tammy Carlson's army chaplain gave her three options: take illegal drugs; get pregnant; get AWOL and process yourself out.  She ended up with a dishonorable discharge, disbelieved by all.

Lt. David Wells was harassed, career changed and family transferred to a harsh assignment after [he] told the military that they wrongly punished one of his women members.

Dick Stobbs (DLA) Defense Logistic Agency an agency run by DoD. Dick a civilian, former sheriff, witnessed harassment from head of security (former military) of the DLA. After Dick reported the behavior he was denied promotion and attempts for other positions.  

Investigative Services.  Abuses by CID, OSI and their sister divisions not only impede justice, they re-traumatize the survivor, and if criminal behavior is found, prosecution of cases is left up to the chain of command.

From STAMP files:
Lt. Julie Clemm's 14-hour interrogation from Air Force OSI and denied counsel;

Sgt. Stephanie Visser's racist CID report, which followed questioning in which she was asked the size of her rapist's penis;

Mary Zbacnic learning that CID never actually investigated her harassment charges; and recent reports from Aberdeen of agents trying to intimidate young women into signing false statements.

Capt. Mackey's, OSI simply did a cursory investigation but did not press criminal charges against her assailants; the Inspector General, a Colonel and his assistant, Lt. Colonel.

Cadet Stacey Tylor

Legal Services; Sentencing and courts-martial.  The courts-martial, special courts-martial, jury trials vs. bench trials, while in appearance mimics civilian cases this is where it stops.  As, in grand jury (Article 132) determination as well as jury selection of all the above proceedings, the senior most officer on the military instillation determines who will sit on the jury.  As immediate and ultimate authority the senior most officer can over ride the grand jury findings, or any findings. As the senior most officer this authority is a direct conflict of interest because it is also the senior most officer’s choice as to who also determines who is promoted, receive highly competitive slots for schools, training and decorations.

Non-judicial punishment a.k.a. Article 15, captain's mast, or administrative hearing - a tool used by one commander to legitimizes them as prosecutor, defense attorney, investigator and executioner in determining a members guilt or innocence of a crime.  The issue of Non-judicial punishment becomes a problem with felony charges or escalating patterns of behavior being minimized by the military senior authorities and is handled with an Non-judicial punishment rather then criminal charges.  Additionally, this method of minimal punishment regardless of the crime does not mandate disclosure of the facts of the or to agencies monitoring; stalkers, sex offenders, and domestic violence, and yet does provide privacy of records for the guilty party from being obtained by the survivor. (Privacy Act of 1974, 5 USC 552a) see military classification of information.  Inconsistencies have additionally been documented by the Dayton Daily News as well as Representative Maloney's office.

From STAMP files:  
Lt. Kelly Flinn - General Fogleman, AF Chief of Staff in a speech to Congress stated prior to Lt. Flinn’s jury selection, that Flinn was guilty, Fogleman was the promotion authority.

Lt. Crista Davis, Wing Commander noted she would be found guilty as well.

Army officer Jonni Manning was given the rare option of turning the offenders over to the police, but opted for military authority - only to see her attackers let off with a reprimand. 

Capt. Dorothy Mackey knows that her assailant, a full colonel, retired with full benefits; the lieutenant received a reprimand alone for indecent assault (a felony offense).

Annette Erickson's husband, convicted of 17 of charges including 10 for assaulting his wife, served less than 50 days in the brig and a temporary pay cut.

Diane Washington's Navy assailant was convicted of assaulting her by knowingly infecting her with HIV: he received six months the brig, she is under a death sentence.

The military "black hole" for domestic violence/ issues cases.  "It's a military matter," countless STAMP members were told when they went to civilian authorities for help, while commands told other spouses "He's a good Marine, what can I do?" The power of restraining orders often ends at the base gates, while military courts are as cavalier in their sentencing practices in these cases as in other abuse cases. Many military commands still mandate "couples counseling" in such cases, a practice battered women's advocates have long fought as dangerous to the survivor - and military "joint domicile" policy sometimes makes it difficult for military wives to leave abusive spouses. Spouses seen as “flakes and nuts” when trying to get the military spouse to pay court ordered alimony or child support.

Reparations. Conduct by the Pentagon and its agencies has been coming to light over time. Documented conduct of inhumane treatment of civilians as well as of US military personnel has surfaced within the last 10 years exposing much of the Pentagons previously rumored problems, all the while the military disavowed the rumors as falsehoods;
-Incarceration of the Japanese-Americans during WWII (lawsuit awarded)
-Nuclear testing of the Bikini Island which exposed thousands of US Naval seaman,
-President Clinton's apology to the descendants of the Tuskegee soldiers, and
-Secretary Perry's apology to the Okinawain’s for the rape of a 12-year old by Marines,
-including Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, and the LSD experiments involving African-American soldiers in the 1950s. Yet military classification of information, combined with the Feres and Bivens Doctrine's, Title VII, Intra-Military Immunity and Internal Agreements prohibit the ability of military personnel and civilians from seeking and achieving Accountability In Military Services, and damages of redress and relief pursuant of  basic international humane treatment.

The Independent Investigative Agency (IIA) would mandate survivors of military abuse to gain access to; law enforcement agencies, accurate reporting of crimes, records of investigation,  medical and emotional trauma agencies. It would allow and provide fair and impartial investigation and oversee fair trials. It will enable survivors to sue for damages when appropriate.  (See attachment #3.)

The I.I.A. would give a new and powerful voice to  survivors and family members, especially in cases where the victim did not survive  (cf. Alexis Colon, Mary Jane Stubbs, Lt. Colonel Tew).


What would this agency consist of?

Ultimately a cabinet-level agency, the I.I.A. would include men and women of all socioeconomic backgrounds trained in:

*    law enforcement,
*    interrogation,
*    forensics
*    jurisprudence
*    medical/psychological services.
    
The intent of this agency is to mirror the Justice Department, which for the reasons outlined below cannot assume this responsibility.

I.I.A.  will have oversight over:
*    all military services, Inspector General,
*    the Defense Attorney’s formerly Judge Advocate General members,
*    Special Investigative military agencies;  CID, OSI, NIS, etc.,
*    Command Directed Mental Health Evaluation, and
*    Immediate Restraint/ Incarceration for the purpose of personal protection

Special note: As the Justice Department currently represents assailants when they are sued in civil court by survivors, a conflict of interest exists that makes it impossible and impractical for the Justice Department to perform this function. An example is presented by two contrasting and currently on going cases:

*    US v. Mitsubishi Corporation, in which the Justice Department is representing plaintiffs in a class-action suit on the basis of sexual harassment
*    US v. Correy, US v. Colon, US v. Stubbs, and
*    (US), Milam, and Elmore v. Mackey. In this case, after repeated refusals request to assist her from the Justice Department, Captain Mackey had no alternative but to pursue a federal torts claim, civil suit. The Justice Department then entered the case on behalf of the defendants, in a case involving sexual assault, intimidation and harassment.


What will IIA be empowered to do?

Responsibilities of I.I.A. would include:

*    Investigate inter and intra-service connect cases of abuse by military personnel, with no prejudice or favoritism toward senior ranking members, or the services,

*    Mandate cooperation from service IGs to secure access to military documents, witnesses for testimony, and guidance through the military nuances of each service.

*    After investigations, charge defendants in cases where the charges have been substantiated, using standards compatible with existing civilian law.

*    Provide representation for survivor(s) at trial, in which the military or Justice  Dept. would represent the defendant (s).

*    Propose punishment to fit the crime, consistent with civilian practice as well as a modified UCMJ. This would include drastic reduction, if not elimination, of the number of retirements in lieu of punishment. (STAMP's files are stuffed full of caseloads where the assailant retired with full benefits, a practice which treats abuse of personnel as a victimless crime, in violation of the UCMJ.)

*    Implement changes in training for all services, military academies and National Guard units,  to reduce the impact of over zealot careerism over professionalism.  This will occur with hot line service to IIA, and immediate availability to off military installation sources; Rape Crisis Intervention, Suicide Prevention, Domestic Violence Shelters

*    Initiate Coalitions with Rape Crisis Intervention, Suicide Prevention, Domestic Violence Shelters to keep and maintain statistic of military related cases which will assist in maintain accurate cases loads and provide for federal assistance for support

*    Insure the enforcement of; anti-stalking laws, orders of protection, Megan's Law, and delivery of court orders et al. on Federal installations.

Information and records - the I.I.A. and the flow of information.  The I.I.A.  will also be empowered to fully enforce the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and will establish and maintain a complete
investigative record. This has not been the experience of STAMP members who have pursued their cases in the past.

From STAMP files:  
In Clemm’s (Lt.) testimony was distorted and dismissed by the
IG. Mackey's (Capt.)  audio tapes of testimony were destroyed and transcripts changed prior to completion of  the investigation, and the case was then dismissed due to the same tampering of testimony.  Non-judicial punishment records of assailant are refused to Mackey despite the fact the crime was against Mackey.
Stacy Tyler (Cadet) also found her testimony changed, while numerous others cannot even get access to trial records or testimonies.

In addition to maintaining an investigative record, the I.I.A. will have access to, and sole discretion over, the names, and ranks of individuals giving testimony (often retained by the military as "classified
nationally sensitive information." It will also regulate the flow of the contents of survivors'  files, currently held by the military services, and will release it with the survivor's permission to the following:
*       Veterans Administration medical centers (for emergency help as well as disability claims)
*       hospitals or other centers specializing in treatment of trauma caused by abuse from military members
*       state agencies investigating claims of a violent nature
*       civilian law enforcement agencies, to facilitate provide charges being pressed by a survivor in civilian court, as well as to preserving the right of due process, and the statutes of limitations for the survivors.

Reparations:  Civil Right

The First Amendment says it plainly: Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to . . . petition the Government for a redress of grievances.   Yet the Feres Doctrine (1947), an exception to the Federal Torts Claim Act of 1945, has been broadened far beyond its original intent (preventing the government being sued under battlefield conditions) to cast a sheath of invincibility over military members and military commands.

Establishment of the I.I.A. would coincide with the following legislative action:

Narrow the Feres Doctrine to its original intent.  In particular, legislation should target the decisions U.S. vs. Stanley, 483 U.S. 669, 682-683 (1987) and Bozeman v. United States, 780 F 2nd. 198, 200-01 (2nd
Cir. 1985).

 Grandfather the statutes of limitations for survivors in the cases involving:
*       repressed memories,
*       charges ignored or dismissed by commands, and or civilian law enforcement agencies,
*       survivors who were retaliated against by being jailed, and/or locked in military or civilian mental institutions.

The I.I.A. would then be empowered to:

Mandate the education, in writing, of all survivors of all processes and procedures necessary to obtain redress.  This would include Standard Form 95, Federal Torts Claim, which stops the clock on statutes of limitation, thereby preserving the survivor's right to redress.

Provide states with funds to safeguard families in domestic violence cases where the offender is still a threat.  The Department of Defense has a prototype of such funds - but very few survivors even know the program exists, and its eligibility criteria are far too narrow.

Establish a system of appeals for survivors whose abuse has resulted in:

*       command-ordered  psychiatric evaluation and/or hospitalization
*       counter-charges of adultery or fraternization
*       loss of custody of children

Establish an independent panel to determine appropriate levels of compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from military abuse.


How would IIA be funded?

Funding for the IIA can be diverted from some of the agencies, both military and civilian, who have failed at the essential work of investigating these crimes and supporting survivors. These include:

*    Inspectors General in each branch and the DoD
*    CID, OSI, NIS and other investigative services
*    Scaling back the EEO within the military to the functions it performs best: educate personnel about behavior that is and is not acceptable, and serve as liaison with the IIA.
*    Area Defense Counsel (Defense Attorney’s) who are the junior most inexperienced attorney’s and who have often not served their clients at all, or who are more concerned with their career,
*    The Justice Dept., and the FBI 's resources for dealing with hate crimes.

STAMP recognizes that this action plan is drastic and complex on its face - however, it is a practical and reasonable way in which to immediately address the problems that are causing irrefutable damage to the image of US military, men and women who serve within it, and nation that employees them.  STAMP present this plan as a broad outline of the changes to correct and enhance the patriotism and honor stripped away by the multitudes of scandals pervasive in today’s US military.

Attachment Psychology of the US Military


Erik Erickson’s 8 Stages of Psychology Development

There is a duality that exists in the US military, and more specifically in it’s leaders (drill instructors, commanders, NCO’s or officers) who appear in the eyes of newly arrived military members as gods. Individual members are trained to fears their leaders, which often result in a love, hate relationship. But, despite these contradictory feelings blind obedience is expected not only to the leaders but also in the name of national security. These intense feelings exist due to the emotional, physical, mental and psychological unfair, disrespectful, cruel and at time grossly brutal treatment of the members at the hands of the leadership with disregard of facts or circumstances involving the member.  After, training has broken down the member; the methodical indoctrination of “military rules, service codes, loyalty and the internal code of silence and ethics” begins in both formal and informal training. These trainings are woven together with lessons of familiar patriotic themes of righteousness and a visionary drive for;
     -   Freedom by our founding fathers who escaped an oppressive tyranny,
     -   noble ideals of protecting our lands and families from a hostile and known enemy,  
     -   contemporary and heroic acts of perceived “valor and selfless sacrifice in the completion of a military combat mission.”
Throughout the training process a slow carefully and succinctly controlled release of information is provided to the member as the system continues to egg on, covert, cajole or demand it’s members to continue to compete obsessively against each other. The service is a system that can never be fully pleased with ones accomplishments or is a system that is not accountable for the training it provided and outcomes it excepted from it’s members.

Annually the Department of Defense & US military spends over $231 million on public relations (PR) in recruiting young men and women into its ranks.  The PR that is used is directed at youth that are disenfranchised, alone, without funds for education, seeking appropriate boundaries, equality and a purpose that has meaning and integrity. Often many of their ranks come from dysfunctional backgrounds.  Below is a listing of the Psychosocial Development stages of Doctor Erik Erickson.

The following are Dr. Erik Erickson’s stages of Psychosocial Development.  It is my belief and experience that throughout the indoctrination of the US military that both aspects of the conflict are taught, however, it is the contrary aspect of the conflict which is more strongly indoctrinated into it’s members psyche.  In so stating I have included examples of actual military incidents to demonstrate these factors.

Stage 1: Oral-Sensory
Conflict: Trust vs. Mistrust
Important Event: Feeding        
Military: Absolute control of member’s environment, habits, feeding schedule and all sensory input at every moment. There is often no moments that do not include public and private humiliation. Every issue is controlled in training to include the feeding of personnel.  

Stage 2: Muscular - Anal
Conflict: Autonomy vs. Doubt
Important Event: Toilet Training
Military:  The military training instills ridged self-reliance, self sacrifice however, the training instills that the men and women to the your left and right of self are more important then self.

Stage 3: Locomotor
Conflict: Initiative vs. Guilt
Important Event: Independent
Military:  Highly motivated individuals who willing risk their lives are driven into isolation or self-abusing guilt. Such as in the case of many soldiers sworn to loyalty through silence:
Case 1) soldier who broke silence of No Gun Ree massacre, S. Korea, he stated he could not deal with the shame. The Pentagon’s initial response to prosecute him despite the fact the massacre was ordered.
Case 2) Women and men openly talk about being assaulted in the military, are ignored by various military or veteran agencies in seeking redress and counseling, and are often retaliated against by the denial of disabilities claims.     

Stage 4: Latency
Conflict: Industry vs. Inferiority
Important Event: School
Military:  Loyalty to one’s military service (Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard) more important than God, country, and citizens as spoken by several service generals.  
Case 1) Viewed several general officers (commanders of these military branches) who noted that loyalty of each military member within a service is first to the service they serve, NOT, to the country, citizens, President or God they serve.
Case 2) While attending a military school, military teachers did not facilitate unification of genders through understanding or comradery but instead set the genders against each other by minimizing women’s roles and importance in resolving the mock scenarios soonest.    

Stage 5: Adolescence
Conflict: Identity vs. Role Confusion
Important Event: Peer relations
Military:  Military members are often told that the military is your family e.g. “we take care of our own”.  It is impressed upon a military member and their family that their rank (e.g. Captain, Sergeant) is everything. Spouses and children even in social settings begin to identify with and take advantage of situations when their military member has a significant rank.  Women; spouses and children when married to a military member do not use their own US personal identification number known as a social security number (ssn). Instead all medical, dental, financial and personnel records of a civilian spouse are found under the military members ssn.

Additionally, if a military member or a spouse of a military member cause a rift (problem) they will isolated and shunned. This also occurs when a military member brings a complaint against a significant military member or the system.  Information that is required to be shared to resolve the situation soonest is not passed on, ignored, or blocked. When isolation occurs the military member is nothing, and is often fair target for aggressive behavior through psychological or physical abuse.


Stage 6: Young Adulthood
Conflict: Intimacy vs. Isolation
Important Event: Love relations
Military:  The ongoing militarization and training and obsessive drive for rank, loyalty to the military system that re-enforces one’s only reason for existence and sense of belonging, is to be in the military has resulted in a 70%+ divorce rate and a 5% higher then the US national average of domestic abuse. The common phrases used in the military; “if we wanted you to have a wife/family we would have issued one”.  That if one breeches the military codes of silence or ethics that all benefits, potential for disability, support or health care is at risk of being cut off even when one is still in service.  

Stage 7: Middle Adulthood
Conflict: Generativity vs. Stagnation
Important Event: Parenting
Military:  The military states “it takes care of it’s own.”  However, as example the military system does not provide 401 K plans alternative financial pension systems, which provides an option throughout the member’s service career to allow for consideration for other avenues of employment without serious financial consequences.  Additionally, while military state they support outside the military or college education, in many instances time is not provided the member to keep themselves intellectually stimulated. Also, military members are programmed internally or information is limited to service members to make wise political decisions when voting for the US President.   In many instances, service members become robotic like in their thinking and responses.

Stage 8: Maturity
Conflict: Integrity vs. Despair
Important Event: Reflection on and acceptance of one’s life
Military:  The US military career path offered many opportunities to either do what the system desired or potentially not be promoted and receive a poor annual evaluation. The option of selection one’s integrity over being promoted was contrary and confusing due to the intense training received about honor and integrity. But, in actual reality the system often wanted it’s members to operate out of integrity, which led to personal despair.  
The Veterans Administration (VA) is officially recognized not to be connected to the Department of Defense, however, unofficially the actions taken by the VA are indicative of an institution protecting it’s little brother. The VA is the 2nd largest prescriber of drugs to its military veterans (there are only approx. 40 million vets), 1998 US census in noted there was approx. 138 million US citizens. Example: in 1998 as soon as Viagra came onto the market the DoD provided for $50 million for the purchase of Viagra for its male members.  Women vets could barely find facilities to deal with sexual assaults.  


Psychology of the Military: Military Training Actual

The US military has tremendous resources to train 98% of America’s children to be exceptional leaders utilizing confidence, respect and humanitarian understanding and logic. The military also has the potential of becoming an advocate of peace, but only when it is willing to train its own members in the ways of peace, intervention and reconciliation, will it have true “peacekeepers” among their ranks.  

The US military has and uses a combination of positive and negative traits. For this discussion, I will focus on the negative traits that appear to dominate the US military in scandals and that plagues the military’s leadership in maintaining their personal and professional integrity.


Basic Training and Ongoing Training:

It is most curious that in the cases of national emergencies such as Pearl Harbor or September 11, 2000, the Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon the US military acted with a single mindedness to collect itself, move, take action and resolve the incidents. Yet, when there are concerns of global sexual abuse, molestation, torture or the trafficing of women and children by the military there seems to be no one truly in charge.

The military leadership in being accountable for it’s member’s sexual abuse and global scandals, and the training by indoctrination of it’s members has been compared to the philosophies of the; Klu Klux Klan, Moffia and a religious cult.  Each one of these organizations’ embodied secrecy, power, influence, their own internal language and code of conduct. However, unlike these organizations the US military has in addition to these traits, the legalized backing and resources of the US government.  By direction of the US constitution the US military is suppose to be under the Executive branch of the government and run by the Commander –in- Chief, the President. Financially, the US military is to be controlled by Congress.  The military joint chiefs through a series of complex internal systems, share power with senior civilian service officers.

Sadly, in the last 20 years senior military leaders have demonstrated their inability or disregard of inhumane treatment or abuse by their military personnel toward the global community. From Army General Hale, to Admiral Mackie, Sergeant Major McKinney abuse of personnel under their command was totally minimized and disregarded as non-issues.

Break Down Theory:  

In basic training all US military member’s entering the armed services are “broken down” giving up their will and individualize mind to become connected and committed to a unit. This practice through physical, emotional, mental, and physiological exhaustion is believed to bind single mindedness of a group of individuals.  The training continues day in and day out throughout the military member’s training and throughout their career.  


Behind the Break Down Theory:

From the beginning the military demoralizes and portrays civilians as “weak, stupid, unable to succeed in the military a waste”. In addition, the military training exhaults the greatness of their service all the while using mental, emotional, physical and psychological tactics and exhaustion in the form of personal and constant humiliation e.g. of the individual and his/her family, culture, class, etc. through the use of acceptable terms such as “queer, faggot, lesbian, or general name calling pussy, whimp, girl, sissy, etc.” The military also isolates individuals as unit “target” for abrasive treatment which is so harsh that others will stay inline rather then be humiliated. Fear, physical, mental and psychological abuse and threats often force personnel to rely on each other more. However, targets of military leaders, often become internal targets to the unit bully.  These types of targets are often effeminate men, masculine women, or those who stand out in multiple ways.     


Spoken disrespect or disregard:

Each service member is given 30 days of vacation or “leave” a year. And yet while on active duty at work it is commonly heard,
Yeah, you have 30 days but your needed to much to get the 30 days at once or
The mission is more important then you are,
And countering response to this comment is
If, you were to get your vacation and you were to die tomorrow, we could replace you in a heartbeat.   
Sadly, the attitude of disregard or dismissal has also been used to rape or “gay bate” military members. Gay bating is when an offender accuses and threatens to expose the victim of being gay to keep the victim silent.  The military’s homophobia is largely responsible for the silencing of victims through this method. In the last several years the US military has discharged “supposed more gays then in all previous years” a large majority of these alleged gays are women.
Case 1) Drill sergeant who is a military police officer rapes three women he is training. The women are charged with adultery and fraternization because the sergeant is married. With pressure from the parents the sergeant, despite a previous charge of rape is charged with adult and fraternization, and is maintained in the military.  The women were provided incompetent mental health counseling were discharged from the military. The offender has no sexual paperwork following him.    


Disrespect of the civilian population:

The US military relies 100% on the US citizens for its financing and upkeep. However, a common practice within the military is to remind a new member until it is engrained in their souls that “civilians” or non-military personnel are “weak, scared, unable to do what the military members can, stupid, all failures, unable to be in the military, and as often quoted in the military “if you can’t make it in the military you can’t make it any where.”      

This disrespect of civilian citizens is not only inappropriate but can be very dangerous to the civilian populations in a time of national emergency. One core aspect of the military is to defend the US constitution, US land and it’s population. If however, military members have been trained to view civilians with such loathsome disdain then one might wonder what reaction would occur when, and if, US military members are called into a martial law situation?  Will civilians be safe at the hands of military men and women who have been trained to see them as failures, weak or insignificant?  These lines have already been drawn as exampled by civilians globally who are under occupation rule by US forces or when the US military act as “peacekeepers”. Both US occupation forces and peacekeepers have harmed, raped and killed civilian personnel under their care. It is the very rare exception when military members are held fully accountable for their actions. (e.g. 1945 – present numerous Japanese and Okinawan rapes, murders and assaults by US military that have gone unpunished in comparison with 1995 Okinawan 12 year old raped by 3 US military and conviction of US military member after rape and murder of 11 year old Bosnian child).  Will US citizens fair any better if their military were to institute martial law within the US? The answer, if probably not.  


Training that disregards the individual member:

As the newly indoctrinated military members is broken from their own identity to embody and embrace a new identity is affixed slowly and methodically being built year upon year through drills, assignments, promotions and schools, awards and evaluations.  

Military common practice is to also remove any sign associated with emotional reaction or response. This process produces a numbing of emotions which in the case of domestic abuse, or sexual assault is simply minimized. The victims responses of the assault are seen as over exaggerated.  When military women are victims of the assault their emotions involving the assault, even a severe brutal assault can appear as not emotional enough or muted. The military training exacerbates the extremes of the emotional ranges and the military authorities often exploited the emotional indifference or overwhelming emotions at ignore or minimize the assaults within the military.

An additional explanation of these reactions, is key to understanding that all military training is formulated in the characteristics of combat training.  Combat training is based on the practice that a military member are not fighting to keep themselves alive but instead the persons or “buddies” to the left and right of yourself. Each member holds this view which does not instill survivability but instead learned hopelessness and learned self-devaluation, even social moral boundaries are slowly expanded.  In many cases military personnel who have been sexually assaulted by civilian standards do not recognize the assaults as sexual assaults.

There is a saying in the military “you’re only as strong as your weakest link”. If the above combat training holds true in the minds of the military personnel, then every military person does not truly value themselves enough to get out of a potentially deadly situation. Instead they are taught to be valiant, even when there is no need to do so. What exists instead of a strong national military is the equivalent of the following analogy: if each person in the military is equal to one titanium fence post, and all military are lined up – a million strong but not planted firmly in the ground (ground representing self importance). Any combination of winds, rains or storms will undermine, rattle them and knock them down.

Case examples: In numerous military cases when a military member who (supposedly committed suicide) has used the threat psychological autopsies to deter parents from seeking the facts about their military child’s death.       


MK Ultra:

I have also been told by five independent sources of a program known as MK Ultra. This program in part, as told to me was the ongoing sexual assault of military children by their military fathers. As it was stated the continual rape of children will result in multiple personalities, within one of the multiple personalities there is a personality with a photographic memory. The child would then be used as an information courier.

Additionally, in accordance with the MK Ultra information sex abuse victims value their lives less, especially when assaulted by an authority figure such as their father, brother, etc. It was noted to me that the US government/military tries to recruit women who have been sexually abused by authority figures to spy for the US and against other nations.  Since, these victims would value their lives less, they would take greater risks in getting the needed information. #

Note: I have not actively pursued this line of research but remain open to include the information when it has come to me through viable and reliable sources and when it provides insight to patterns of abuses.

#MBS is source, worked for government in this field.


Attachment Military Rape Conviction Rates and Statistics

US Military Rape Conviction Rates and Statistics

     “The data he sent to me was a six-year statistical analysis from 1991-1996 which was based on data provided by the Department of the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy (the Marine Corps reports were included in the Navy data).  This six-year summary was readily available since it was previously compiled in response to a specific request by Senator Snowe’s office.  
    Of particular note, prior to Senator Snowe’s request for the summary, this information was reportedly not maintained by the Pentagon.  No wonder it was so difficult to find out how many rapes were reported to each of the service branches if the data was not previously readily available.  However, it is hard to believe that the Department of Defense would not keep accurate, annual records of violent crimes perpetrated by military personnel given the increased attention to this problem (especially since Tailhook in the early 1900’s).  Furthermore, considering the result of DoD’s own repeated studies in 1989, 1992 and 1996 indicating that over half of military women reported some type of sexual victimization or sexual harassment, one would wonder why such data was not being closely tracked and monitored.
    The six-year report from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for 1991-1996 appears to be the most recent compilation of this information that was readily available to the public.  The data offers a wide range of information from each of the service branches including: reported rapes, cases tried, number convicted, percent reported versus tried, percent tried versus convicted, percent resulting in punitive discharges and the average sentence.
    There are several interesting points to make about this information.  The most striking point of contention is the significant increase in reported cases for the Navy/Marines and a sharp decrease in the average sentencing for that time period.  The reported cases jumped from 262 in 1995 to 412 in 1996; whereas for the same years, the average sentenced decreased dramatically from 20.86 years in 1995 to 8.9 years in 1996.  Ironically, the average sentence was even lower in 1994 at 3.95 years for a rape conviction.
    This significantly reduced sentencing of less than four years for a felony rape conviction proceeded the Tailhook scandal.  Did the negative national attention of Tailhook cause a backlash of sympathy among Navy peers resulting in lower sentencing terms by the court martial juries?  We may never know the answer.  However, we do know in comparison to the civilian sector, sentencing for rape in many states is up to 25 years.  We also know that a rape sentence could have resulted in the death penalty under the Uniform code of Military Justice not so long ago.  The recent changes in the Navy’s sentencing patterns for rapists raises many questions about their commitment to zero tolerance.  What does a four-year sentence for a rape conviction say to rape victims or to sexual offenders?
    Another interesting point comes from the Air Force’s data and the percentage of cases court-martialed.  From 1992 onward, the Air Force consistently has tried a greater percentage of reported cases than any of the other services.  One might conclude from this data that the Air Force is more likely to press charges and court martial a case than the Army or Navy.  This data reflects highly on the commitment of the Air Force in responding to these types of cases.  The Navy/Marines had the worst conviction rates for 1991-1996, with less that a third (1 in 3) of the cases that were actually tried resulting in a conviction.
    Of particular note, an important statistic that the summary did not include was the percentage of reported rape cases which resulted in a conviction.  Fortunately, this information was easy enough to ascertain with the number of reported cases and the number of convicted cases.  Although this calculation does not account for any cases with multiple reports, it does offer an overview of how many reported cases actually resulted in convictions.  A three-year summary of reported rape cases ending in conviction is noted in the table below based on the data provided by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense.
 

Rapes Reported to Military Criminal Investigative Offices:  1994-1996
       
1994:          Number reported         Number convicted         Percent convicted       
Army                   476                               40                                 8%       
Air Force             128                               19                                15%       
Navy                   338                                21                                 6%       
1995:         Number reported         Number convicted         Percent convicted       
Army                  427                               56                                  13%       
Air Force            149                               19                                  13%       
Navy                   292                               17                                    6%       
1996:        Number reported         Number convicted         Percent convicted       
Army                  440                              33                                     8%       
Air Force            164                              19                                    12%       
Navy                   412                              32                                     8%    


    The information speaks volumes about how the military is responding to rape reports.  The most striking is the Navy’s records for rape convictions in 1992—only one year after the Tailhook scandal.  During that year, sexual harassment awareness in the Navy was probably at an all time high given the national media attention to the issue.  However, Navy sentencing rates dropped significantly during that timeframe and conviction rates were also surprisingly low according to the Pentagon data.
    
     Another startling fact is that over 95% of the accused rapists in the Navy and Marines in 1992 were found not guilty of the alleged rapes and were not convicted of the crimes.  Only 4.5% of the reported rapes in the Navy and the Marine Corps ended in a conviction.  Moreover, of the 422 reported cases that year, 80% of the alleged rapists (341) never faced a court-martial.  
Almost every reported rapist in the Navy or Marine Corps in 1992 was found not guilty.  They were free to go on with their lives (or to stay in the service) if they so desired.

    How can so few cases warrant a conviction?  More to the point, how can so many reported, alleged sexual offenders go free?  Some opponents will undoubtedly argue that the numbers of reported cases include a fair share of women who are making false reports or ‘crying rape.’  To the contrary, the FBI has concluded that rape does not have a significantly higher false allegation rate than other crimes.  The numbers of false reports are very low, especially in comparison to the numbers of rapes that never get reported.  The reality is that the conviction rate of reported sexual assaults in the military is quite low.
    
     Although these numbers are startling and surprising, the underlying problem of sexual abuse is not found in the statistics.  The core of the problem is what the institution does with this information.  This point was summarized very effectively by a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower from the Reagan administration:

    “You’ve got to remember, if you acknowledge a problem, you’ve got to do something about it.”
        --Lawrence Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower
        (Knight –Ridder/Tribune News Service, 1996)” 1



1.)  For Love of Country, author T.S. Nelson, pgs. 84 – 87, The Haworth Press, Inc.
Attachment Rape Allegation Checklist – McDowell’s Scoring

Below is an excerpt from the book For the Love of Country by author T.S. Nelson, publication date summer 2002.  With permission of the author of the book, T.S. Nelson, the information provided details the US military expert and trainer of military criminal investigators of rape victims. The U.S. government’s “expert” Charles P. McDowell’s questioning of victims and flawed questionable scoring system is both shocking and disturbing when considering that McDowell was responsible for training his techniques to all U.S. military rape investigators.  It raises serious question as to the motive and sincerity of the U.S. government’s desire to hold accountable offenders of rape.

“Further Accounts of Abuse in the U.S. Military”

The “Rape Allegation Checklist”:  Assessing the Validity Reported Rapes

    Far too often when rape victims attempt to seek help, they are subject to further abuse by the very people who are supposed to assist them.  For sexual assault victims, this type of treatment is referred to as the ‘second rape’ for good reason (Madigan and Gamble, 1991).  Many service men and women indicated that their experiences of reporting the sexual assault were worse than the actual rape.  This was especially true if the victims had to demonstrate they were telling the truth about the rape allegation.
    Rather than assuming the crime did occur, some law enforcement and criminal justice authorities want the victim to prove it.  If there is any suspicion or indication that the person reporting the rape may not be a credible witness, the ‘alleged victim’ will be under high scrutiny.  This scrutiny and outward disbelief by law enforcement, criminal justice or medical authorities is one the most psychologically damaging responses to rape victims.  That’s why it was so appalling to know that some military victims have actually been subjected to a ‘rape checklist’ during the criminal investigation.  In short, the checklist is used as a tool to ‘weed out’ false rape allegations at the onset.  However, it is rife with misconceptions about rape victims including their economic status, past sexual history or if they reported any physical injuries.  Astonishingly, this rape checklist has been used against  sexual assault victims and circulated around the armed forces and civilian communities for nearly a decade.
    The “rape allegation checklist” was developed by Charles P. McDowell, a retired Air force lieutenant colonel with an extensive and impressive career in crime analysis and criminal justice.  McDowell was a civilian supervisory special agent and senior investigative consultant for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations when he provided training on his rape his checklist to military and civilian law enforcement and prosecutors.  At the tie, he was considered one of the Air Force’s leading experts on rape (Anchorage Daily News, 1992) despite the controversy and protests surrounding his “rape allegation checklist.”
    The 57-item rape checklist proposes to assess the likelihood of whether or not the victim is making a false report.  Hence, a higher score on the test is indicative of a false report.  A higher score could result in a quick disposal of the case by the investigator as unfounded.  Even worse, there is the potential for charges to be brought against the victim for making a false report.
    The sad irony is that the checklist cannot predict a false allegation anymore successfully than a detective’s hunch.  In fact according to well-known and respected researcher on rape, Dean Kilpatrick, “from a scientific perspective, there is absolutely no documentation of the validity of these test items (on the rape checklist)” (rocky Mountain News, Washington Bureau, 1992).  Nonetheless, the rape allegation checklist did exist.  Moreover, it was used by military investigators who were personally trained by McDowell.
    Training on the checklist was generally highly guarded and restricted only to specific audiences.  For example, only certified police officers or District Attorneys were allowed to register at one training which was co-sponsored by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).  Even psychologists, psychotherapists, victim advocates and rape crisis counselors were not authorized nor allowed to be in attendance at this training.  This factor alone raises suspicion about the checklist that the military were using.
    A prosecutor who was permitted to attend one of McDowell’s classes on “Indirect Assessment of Real and False Claims of Sexual Assault” reported the following information about the training and the rape allegation checklist.  This prosecutor, now a respected judge, provided written documentation to prove that she was indeed in attendance at the training.  She referred to McDowell’s materials as well as her own notes from the class to provide this summary.  This is what she reported about the class and the presenter’s materials on the rape allegation checklist:

    The training class I attended was held in 1992 co-sponsored by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.  The presenter, Charles P. McDowell, said he was a Special Investigator for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
    The focus of the training class was on assessing the validity of rape allegations from alleged victims based on a rape assessment/checklist that was developed by the presenter.  He began by saying that those of us working in the field should know that 60% of all allegations of rape are false.  He then described sexual assault as ‘courtship behavior gone awry’.
    The presenter indicated that his thesis was based upon his personal observation (research?) with three police departments.  He refused to name those departments or to give us any indication of what exactly his data was based upon.
    He went on to state very firmly the feminist theory that rape is a power crime was unequivocally wrong.  Under his theory, the business of being a victim is a very powerful narcotic for immature, inadequate people (women).  Because under his theory, the number of men and children that cry rape is “infantessably small.”
    The term that he coined to describe women that make rape reports is “false allegator.”  These were some of the examples he used in the training class to substantiate his theory that 60% of reported rapes are actually false allegations.

1.  False allegations derive much pleasure from the recounting of their physical injuries.
2.  If we don’t realize how many false alligators are out there, we run the risk of locking up innocent people and ruining their lives.
3.  Most of the falsely accused are “horny devils at t peak of their sexuality.”

These were some of his recommendations on interviewing the alleged rape victim:

1.  Never allow a third party in the room when interviewing (i.e. support system, advocate, family…).
2.  Have the victim write a statement – she can write it in the form of a letter to the police.  (This was a bit disturbing for those of us who are prosecutors).
3.  Always maintain control of the interview.
4.  Watch for “pseudological fantastica” (the term he used for victim sexual fantasies leading to the allegation).

He then went on to describe his theories of 3 personality types and their patterns of lying.  He referred to them as: ‘N people, S people and I people--narcissists, socio-paths and immature, impulsive, inadequate types.  I presume he gave us this information to better assess ‘false or real claims’ of rape.

Please note {when you look at the rape allegation checklist} there is absolutely no way a victim of sexual assault can score anything other than an ‘equivocal’ on this list.  For example, if she reports that a gun was utilized in the assault she gets 3 points--if she has financial problems, she gets 1 point--if she reports both anal and forced oral sex, she gets 1.5 points--sharp weapon lacerations are another 3 points--if the assailant wore a mask .5-- she has ‘shallow’ scratches to face, neck, breasts, thighs or stomach that is a 5 pointer and if she “demands” (in italics on the checklist) to be treated by a female physician or female officer, she gets another point.  That score (which is from an actual sexual assault that I prosecuted where the rapist got 60 years) {according to Dr. McDowell’s rape allegation checklist} would mean the “allegation is probably false.”
To say the least, the presentation was disturbing and frightening.  Most significant was the fact that he was absolutely unable to account for any basis for his theories.

The 57 yes or no questions selected for the checklist call into question how these items were chosen and rated for the assessment.  For example, the following items on the checklist all count as points against the ‘alleged’ victim.  However, each of these issues can indeed be a reality in sexual assault or other crimes.  They do not suggest the crime did not occur nor should they be used against rape victim to assess the validity of the crime report.

     Does the victim report being abducted?
     Does the victim report being intoxicated at the time of the assault?
     Does the victim have difficulty in describing sexual details of the assault?
     Does the victim have a history of mental or emotional problems?
     Does the victim have a significant medical history?

After each of the 57 items are answered yes or no, the assigned point value for each question is tallied to reveal the potential of a false allegation, according to the “rape allegation checklist.”  With regard to scoring, McDowell’s scale at the end of the questionnaire has made it easy for anyone to judge the validity of a rape allegation:

    0–15:        Equivocal {evasive, ambiguous, uncertain outcome, of doubtful nature}
    16-35:        Allegation probably false
    36-75:        False allegation
    76 + up:        Overkill

    Based on the scoring, if a victim answered no to 56 items, but yes to only one (she had difficulty in describing details of the assault, for example) her tally would fall in the category of “equivocal (evasive, ambiguous)”.  Can we really expect a rape victim not to have difficulty describing the details of the rape?  According to the checklist, this should raise suspicion.

    We may never know how many rape victims were accused of lying or how many rapists were never charged as a result of the “rape allegation checklist.”  Moreover, we can only wonder why the military allowed their investigators to receive training on assessing false allegations when the FBI indicated that the overwhelming majority of rape reports to law enforcement are true reports.
    Continued efforts by the armed forces, particularly by investigative authorities, to disprove or discredit victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment only serve to divert valuable time and resources away from the real problem.  Checklists such as the “rape allegation checklist” only hurt efforts to effectively address sexual assault and sexual harassment in the military.  We can only hope that the Department of Defense has banned the use of such ‘assessments’ and will focus their efforts on more effective intervention strategies to assist the victims and prosecute the offenders.
    The problem is not with the very few who may make a false rape allegation.  The real problem is that the majority of sexual offenders are never convicted or even charged, because rape victims are afraid they will not be believed.  Instead of spending valuable resources on detecting false reporters, the military should be focusing on what can be done to make it easier for women and men to report their sexual assault to law enforcement.  Otherwise, victims will not feel safe coming forward to report the crime and more rapists will remain free to rape again.” 1



1.)  For Love of Country, author T.S. Nelson, pgs. 207-212, The Haworth Press, Inc., release date Spring-Summer 2002
    
Attachment Veterans Administration -
Mission Confusion; Helping Veterans or Harming Veterans

The Veterans Administration (VA) was established in theory as a separate agency from the US military to care for it’s military veterans and families after their service career. It is estimated, as of 1998 there have been 40 million veterans in the throughout history in the service of the United States.  This compared to a 1998 census of the US population, which was estimated at 138 million people.  However, the VA is the 2nd largest prescriber of drugs to its clients in the United States.

Reminder: The US military, and Department of Defense continues to deny that sexual assault and harassment is a significant problem in the military…  

Yet, in a 1996 Women Veterans Program Resource Guide the following information is found in the Executive Summary:

“One of the goals of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to provide high quality, compassionate health care services to women veterans….

Results:

The survey received 100% participation. A summary of services provided to women veterans follows:

Service Provided                                                        # of Facilities
Women Veterans Clinic                                                       124
    Sexual Trauma Counseling                                               161
    Specialized Mental Health Programs                                146
    Behavior Programs:
        Eating Disorders                                                           91
        Smoking Cessation                                                     160
        Stress Management                                                    137
        Substance Abuse                                                        161
        Weight Reduction                                                       132
    Etc…….” 1    

These Services also Include:
Women Veterans Specialized Inpatient Psychiatry Services       2 (Palo Alto, CA and Brecksville, OH)



1. Women Veterans Program Resource Guide, February 1996, National Center for Cost Containment Department of Veterans Affairs, Milwaukee, WI


Processing of a Service Member:

After a member leaves the US military service, a veteran then proceeds to the VA where they are processed through a service physical, mental health evaluation, etc. and a report is started to determine if a VA disability claim is associated to their military service.

Non military service agencies such as Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and the American Legion were originally established as social clubs for veterans after their service careers. However, these agencies have also grown to be recognized by disability claims boards in helping veterans prepare their disability packages, represent the veteran at board hearings, and to submit the package through the appropriate VA channels in submission and claiming disabilities contributed to their time in service.  

In the Fall, of 1992 sexual military assaults became U.S. national news with the exposure of the Navy sex scandal, “Tailhook”. Tailhook was a Las Vegas convention for naval aviators, where they “paraded around with their genitals exposure and participated in lewd acts with prostitutes and female entertainers.” 2

Despite the various sexual assaults committed against over 83 military and civilian women, a lone Navy female pilot, Paula Coughlin was selected to represent all assault survivors. Lt. Coughlin was portrayed as if she was the only assault victim of the conference on national news. Despite the evidence the Navy rushed to hide evidence and pictures of it’s senior leadership involved in sexually compromising positions. The results of this scandal were that several senior Navy admirals and political appointee’s resignation, no one person was substantially punished for their crimes. Lt. Coughlin (victim) and the male officer who initially reported the scandal lost their military careers. She after the news media died down was subjected to ongoing internal military sexual harassment and intimidation and the male, Captain Fred Ludwig was court-martialed, and had a nervous breakdown. 3

Since 1992, and the Tailhook scandal which broke the silence of US military sexual assaults and harassment has had little improvement or seen much movement to safeguard the US military members from offenders or to protect the civilian population from military or former military offenders. As of 2002 the VA service agents have not received formal training on how to assist survivors of sexual abuse. In many cases these agencies avoid helping veterans who have been sexually assaulted or harassed in the military.   
In numerous cases: women veterans have reported being sexually harassed or assaulted by VA hospital personnel while seeking treatment for military sexual abuse. This is not surprising because the VA system often employs many former military personnel.


2. Fall From Glory, The Men Who Sank the Navy by Gregory L. Vistica, Simon & Schuster, 1995
3. Ibid.


VA personnel have also been reported to have;
     -   not forward for processing disability claims of sexual assault victims,
     -   discussed private files of clients openly with other clients (a violation of privacy) and
     -   in one case the VA representative for a sexual harassment, rape client stated to another rape victim “I don’t care if you have been raped in the military, I am not helping you” as he showed another clients records he had not forwarded for processing.
     -   Refused to speak with client victims.  The Director of VA regional hospital such as in Dayton, Ohio have refused to talk with military women veterans sexual trauma victims who feel their issues are not being met or addressed at the hospital in overcoming the trauma, or in addressing complaints.
     -   Mislabeled patients claims and counseling.  A male veteran of sexual assault in the military was diagnosed with PTSD associated to his incident, however, the VA contributed the PTSD to combat. This despite the veterans insistence that he had never scene combat action.
     
However, both male and female veterans who have gone to these agencies when dealing with sexual trauma in the military have stated that these service agents have not been taught how to deal with veterans of sexual assault.  The results of which are that the client victim is re-traumatized again and again.


Excessive Length of Process:

Veterans either combat or sexual assault dealing with PTSD have complained of the length of the process and the slow and ineffectiveness of the system. Veterans have reported their claims cases have been ongoing for over 5, 9 and in some case 15 years awaiting compensation and counseling. Many veterans are unable to fit in socially and do not trust authority figures, unable to work and without finances; they become drifters and have no stable homes or ways to contact them. Often veterans move numerous times due to the stress of PTSD and the failure of their families to understand their condition or what happened to them.   In an unknown number of cases PTSD veterans have simply given up on receiving a claim sighting that the mental mind games and anguish the VA puts a veteran through is as bad as the original assaults.

The VA system continually asks for more paperwork, proof or witnesses in cases dragging out the process and which results in re-victimizing the victim.
These boards are well aware that sexual assaults often do not take place in front of others. The VA’s own rules state to give the benefit of the doubt to the veteran, yet, they often deny claims to already traumatized persons.   



Irony of the System:

The veterans who are suffering from the symptoms of PTSD are expected to function well enough to meet and manage their claims. Yet, the vary nature of PTSD is that veterans with this condition can’t function in the most basic of conditions. Additionally, veterans who do not have an income and prior to having their disability claim approved have been charged for their counseling visits. Until recently, veteran sponsored support groups with no VA facilitator support was required to pay for these support groups.   


Internal Veterans Administration:

The Veterans Administration is suppose to be an organization that is separate from the US military and therefore unbiased in determining its veterans claims. However, numerous former military members have held or are holding significant positions within the VA from the US military.  

     -   Former Secretary of the Army, Togo West became the Secretary of the Veterans Affairs (VA) shortly after the breaking of another US military sex scandal at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Grounds.  Numerous military women including Sarah Smith reported of being raped by middle management leaders known as NCO’s.  Of all the accusations one man was sentenced for rape. Sarah Smith charged the Army leadership at Aberdeen with having known of these events and that they did nothing to stop the assaults. Under the Feres, Bivens, Intra-military doctrine and Title VII these charges were denied to be heard by the US civilian courts.   

     -   Former Military Legal Officer (prosecuting attorney Army) receives an appointment to the Ohio VA Claims Board.

     -   VA refuses to let clients know who is sitting on VA broads and what the member’s professional backgrounds are.


External Experts v. Internal Doctors:

There are many ironies to the VA system in determining a veteran’s PTSD status. The VA for instance hires both civilian and former military doctors to examine military veterans. The VA psychiatrists and psychologists will provide a battery of tests that will determine if the client is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder associated to military sexual trauma. If it is determined that PTSD exists then the VA must provide financial compensation and mental health support for the client.  

Irony: Dr. G. was a part time VA psychologist in 1994 who provided to this author a copy of a directive from the VA which stated that veterans (men) who were suffering from PTSD and having also suffered sexual abuse as a child were to be granted the rating of PTSD. However, women suffering from PTSD from sexual trauma in the military and having been sexually abused as children were not to receive the PTSD rating citing pre-existing condition.

Case: In one such case and due to a pending lawsuit independent experts; psychiatrist and psychologist performed the same battery of tests as the VA. The credentials of the outside experts were superior, these doctor’s studied with the founders of the MMPI test, etc. Both outside experts found the client’s condition to be reflective of PTSD, as it is associated with the sexual trauma from her military service. However, despite multiple outside expert testimony and supportive examinations and testimony of some VA doctors, the regional veterans disability claims board continued to deny this client’s claim. This is not an unusual scenario among veterans, especially women veterans claiming PTSD.

Cases: Many military women are diagnosed with lateral mental health conditions such as personality disorders rather then PTSD. These disorders are often accessed while the women are in the military, and during the process of filing sexual assault complaints. These personality disorders are often the leading cause of women’s discharge following sexual assaults.  The discharge assessment is then carried on by the VA and the results most often is that the women do not get the appropriate treatment to effect the cause of their trauma.  Veterans become caught in a VA system of learned helplessness, provided good care by entry level practitioners, and yet refused significant treatment that will see them whole.        

Attachment USC 522A Non-disclosure of Non-Judicial Punishment
(Troops to Teachers)

School Background Check Loopholes - Are Your Children Safe
by D. Mackey, B.S., M.P.A., Fairborn, Ohio (937) 879-9304

Since the early 1990s, it has become apparent that high school students nationwide have not been selecting the teaching profession as their career of choice.  This lack of professional teachers has resulted in a national teacher shortage.  In 1994, at the direction of the Department of Defense (DOD), the Clinton Administration requested $54 million to implement the Troops to Teachers Program.  During the ensuing years, the DOD and the federal government has:

     -   Hired over 3,000 retired military nationwide as teachers and administrators in our schools, K through 12,
     -   Paid for training, certification and thousands of dollars in incentive pay to former military personnel to become teachers and administrators,
     -   Asked for another $18 million in 1999 fiscal support,
     -   Transferred the program to Department of Education (DOE),
     -   Provided such personnel to schools without full and complete disclosure of all military records as previously believed to be included in a basic background check.

In a random sampling of Ohio-wide school district employment applications in the section requesting former military personnel information – not one school district requested the former military member to disclose or waive their right under United States Code 522A for release of their Non-Judicial Punishment file.  The Non-Judicial Punishment file is also known as NJP, Article 15, Captain’s Mast or Office Hours.  What is the significance of this file?  Well to understand the potential impact to a school district of an NJP, we must briefly look to two important codes: the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) and the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
 
In accordance with Title 29 of the Ohio Revised Code, there are numerous crimes that disqualify potential applicants from getting jobs or volunteering in school districts. Among these crimes/convictions or offenses are: domestic violence, assaults, sexual assaults, and noted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation Institute (BCII) escalating misdemeanors such as multiple DWIs; receipt of 4 DWIs constitutes a felony conviction.

While these offenses occur in the military, these offenses and many others have been commonly been umbrellaed under NJP and thereby are hidden from the general public and from background check exposure by U.S. Code 522A.  U.S.C. 522A mandates that only after a military member waives his/her rights in writing will the NJP files be turned over.  However, based on information from an associate to the U.S. Attorney General’s office, the Pentagon has final determination of what from NJP files will be released to the public.  In two separate interviews with military legal officers, it was stated that ““NJP” are not convictions,” and therefore they do not count.
 
However, when cross-referencing the military’s version of the Ohio Revised Code known as the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), it states under Non-Judicial Punishment that the intent of NJP “is provide the commander with enough latitude to appropriately resolve a disciplinary problem. Thus, in some instances, the commander may decide that NJP may be appropriate for an offense that could result in a dishonorable discharge or confinement for more than 1 year if tried by general court-martial…”. General court-martial is considered an equivalent to a criminal trial hearing.
 
[In my experience as a commander and knowledge of other associates’ cases, it was the military installation commander who set the tone for his/her willingness or lack of willingness to investigate, and/or prosecute criminal offenses.  The installation commander than had his/her senior legal military prosecutor known as a Staff Judge Advocate General (SJAG) carry out those orders.   In my tenure in the military, prior to the implementation of the Troops to Teachers Program in 1994, sadly to say, I witnessed and was specifically aware of numerous criminal offenses under the ORC which were minimized under NJP or dismissed without investigation.  Among the crimes I have first hand knowledge of range from child molestation, domestic violence, date rape(s), assaults, and multiple member DWIs.  These all constitute offenses under the Ohio Revised Code which by any other terms or institution would not allow an applicant to seek employment with children in the schools.]

When one considers this material, consider the following facts…
     -   In October 1995, the Dayton Daily News published a multi-article series “Secret Files Military Fails to report Many Crimes by Own Members to FBI” on sex crimes within all the military services.  In that series, the award -winning author disclosed several startling facts;
     -   Many of the sex crimes go unprosecuted as victims (military women and spouses) are labeled as “crazy” or “sluts.”  The victims are run out of the military through ongoing intimidation and humiliation,
     -   Those who humiliate or intimidate the victims are rarely held accountable by the leadership, even when the leadership is made aware,
     -   The military has been less then forthright about disclosing factually the numbers convicted of sex crimes and felony crimes despite the right of all to see these public records, and
     -   Of the cases in which military personnel are convicted of sexual offenses the military has refused to turn over conviction records to state agencies.

And from a 1999, 60 Minutes episode “The War at Home” featuring military spouses and active duty spouses, who had been battered in domestic violence by their military spouses, it was reported that:
     -   Domestic violence is 5 times higher in the U.S. military than the national average,
     -   Commanders and senior leadership are often aware of the abuse of spouses and children and do little or nothing about it.  In fact many commanders punish the complaining party (the victims),

and from the only civilian counselor of military domestic abuse who would be seen on camera:
 
     -   The military leadership does not care about helping the victims of domestic violence; they and their agencies are in place to cover it up.
     -   5 women have been murdered by military husbands at Fort Bragg,
a Yale researcher noted domestic violence is 21% higher in the military then in civilian life,
     -   From the book “For Love of Country Confronting Rape and sexual Harassment in the US Military by T.S. Nelson, military trainer and investigator Lt. Col. McDowell devised a point system to nullify rape victims testimony,
     -   Military are punishing women rape victims with Article 15s, and
     -   Rapists are being rewarded, maintained, and if charged, charged with adultery not rape.   
     
In our own backyard, from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCII), in interviews with the Deputy Superintendent of Identification and Administrator of the Sexual Offender Registration Network, when asked what is the current status of reporting military crimes since the1995 Dayton Daily News series which stated the military had refused to turn over their sexual predator conviction files, their response was “we have been in ongoing discussion with the government and military to get the records.”  

While there have been some movement, one needs only look at the following facts.  It was inquired specifically as to whether sexual conviction files had been turned over by the military, and if so, how many.  The Supervisor of the Sexual Offender Registration Unit for the Ohio BCII indicated his unit data specialist is solely responsible for receiving and entering the sexual offender files into BCII files and distributing them to county sheriffs.  Please keep in mind the Troops to Teachers Program began in 1995.  According to Ohio BCII, the U.S. military to date has only released sexual conviction records of its members for calendar years 1999 and 2000.  The number of records released in 1999 was 30, and, in 2000, it was 24.

In following up with that BCII Supervisor and inquiring if military sexual convicted offenders’ records are not being turned over by the US. Government and military, how accurate then is the BCII check of military personnel who may become school personnel?  How accurate can the background check for sexual offenders truly be if records are being refused release by the military?  He agreed and stated the record prior to 1999 would come up clean for such military personnel.

The Troops to Teachers Program is ongoing and may be expanded after the 2000 presidential election.  The Bush campaign has promised another $30 billion toward expanding the program. The Gore campaign has also promised to expand the financial support for the Troops to Teachers program.  

One must determine what risks a school district will take when considering the safety of its children and employees.  The Troops to Teachers Program might be a viable option to the national teacher shortage.  However, the glaring background safety weaknesses in the Program raise serious concerns considering the following:
 
     -   Offenses punished under NJPs are often the same offenses under Ohio Revised Code which would disqualify any other applicant from working or volunteering in our schools, and
     -   Military/governments refusal to release convicted military sexual offender’s records to Ohio agencies prior to 1999.  It is not known if all the records for calendar years 1999 and 2000 have in fact been released.

Currently, through the BCI check, a well thought out process is in place to ensure due diligence is used to screen civilian applicants and their records to provide the highest quality of safety to students and school employees.  Yet, annually we hear of inappropriate teachers or administrators conduct with a student(s) in the media.  The demands placed on teaching and administrative professionals are exceptional under the best of normal circumstances.  A nationwide lagging teacher shortage only fuels the demand for experience.  Pay, class sizes, resources, and a variety of other issues have in part contributed to the teacher shortage.  

In the haste to fill the demand for teachers and administrators, it is important to not blindly trust a nationally perceived “safe” institution.  All institutions can provide quality individuals, but they have equally their share of tainted personnel.  Common sense, inquiry and follow up are need in all new and unproven innovative ideas to ensure their viability to meet demands and especially ensure the safety of our children.  Demand for solutions can’t and shouldn’t overshadow safety when a series of scandals “red flag” events as seen within the military in the last 10 years.  These “red flags” clearly raise concerns.  These scandals in conjunction with the umbrellaed offenses protected under US Code 522A, and the reluctance of the military/federal government to disclose all military sexual offender records should be a serious alarm bell.  

So when a school district considers a former military person for a position in its schools, it is vitally important that the district in the application for employment request the former military member to disclose or waive their rights under United States Code 522A for release of their Non-Judicial Punishment file.  A BCII check will not contain this information if any act occurred prior to 1999 and may not contain this information if it was never reported by the military.  Without this information, the district may be receiving an incomplete picture of that person’s candidacy and may be jeopardizing its students and employees to potential harm.

*Note: To date 5 calls to Mrs. Bush’s project manager of the Troops to Teachers Program, Ann Helgenstien have not been returned.  Also, calls to Ohio State Attorney General’s Office have not been returned.

Attachment Military Serial Killers

Military Serial Killers and Serial Killers who were Children of Military Members:

Below is a short list of a few of the most prominent serial killers in recent memory.  Please note that all of these very deadly serial killers were either part of the US military, or children of US military members. I have also provided a few international serial killers that also happened to be former military members.  It is most curious and no coincidence that the international serial killers were all from the former Cold War nations. It is worth considering the serious possibility that when troubled youth meet with the aggression and lethal tactics of the rogue US military that train and export the use of rape and molestation globally that a formidable and deadly combination is formed.

John Allen Muhammad, US Army, Washington D.C. sniper and John Lee Malvo October 2002 caught after 13 people are shot. Ten dead, three injured.

Timothy McVeigh, US Army tank driver. McVeigh was the 1st federal prisoner in over 30 plus years to be arrested, sentenced and executed for a crime. McVeigh was convicted of the bombing of the Fredrick R. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1996.  After the bomb blast dust settled over one half of the building was missing, in a blast that claimed the lives of 168 people, 19 of the victims were small children.  McVeigh had always wanted to be a military man and as soon as he could he joined the military. McVeigh was assigned to a tank battalion and fought in the Gulf War.  He had decided at one point that he wanted to become an officer and move through the ranks to become a Colonel. McVeigh was downsized from the military and a dream of the military would not be ever realized.   

John Eric Armstrong, US Navy, was an unlikely killer, a man who's arrest in a string of prostitute murders caused genuine shock among his friends and family members. Though weighing in at around 300 pounds the former Navy man was so mild-mannered and boyish-looking that his ex-shipmates nicknamed him "Opie" during his five-year enlistment. But underneath his gentle demeanor and freckled face Armstrong, a married father of two, was a cold-blooded strangler. Armstrong first came to the attention of Detroit investigators when he called in a report of a dead body which later turned out to be one of his own victims. He told police that while throwing up over the side of a bridge he had seen the corpse of Wendy Jordan floating on the riverbank below. For whatever reason, authorities were wary of Armstrong's story and he became a suspect in the slaying and other similar murders that had recently occurred. After linking Armstrong with at least one of the murders through DNA testing, the ex-sailor was arrested and quickly confessed to five prostitute murders and as many as twelve other identical slayings around the world that he claimed he committed during his travels aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz from 1993-98. Though Armstrong recanted his confessions and his defense lawyer all but labeled him a serial confessor, the sex-slayer was convicted on March 7, 2001, of killing Jordan, 39, in January of 2000. He was then tried and found guilty of the murder of 34-year-old Kelly Hood and at his sentencing for the killing, which earned him a second life sentence, he plead guilty to the other slayings in the Detroit series. He has not at this writing been sentenced for the three additional killings of Robbin Brown, 20, Rose Felt, 32, and Monica Johnson, 31, all Detroit prostitutes. Armstrong also pled guilty to a pair of assaults, which were essentially killings that went wrong. Two additional assault charges have been dropped as the result of the plea-bargain. The FBI and authorities in Washington, Hawaii, Virginia, North Carolina, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore are all investigating Armstrong based on his initial confessions in an attempt to link him with any unsolved prostitute kills. It is not expected that any authorities will pursue additional charges against the serial killer unless his legal situation somehow changes in Michigan. 7/4/2001-Armstrong was sentenced to 31 years to life in prison for the murders of Brown, Felt, and Johnson, all of which he had plea-bargained down to second-degree murder.


 Kendall Francois, US Army, In early 1997, Poughkeepsie, New York, police became concerned about a rash of recent missing persons. Since October of the previous year three women had disappeared, all petite, white prostitutes. It seemed to be much more than a coincidence. Further alarm was raised when Catherine Marsh was reported missing in March. She had last been seen during the same time frame as the other three women. Police fruitlessly searched rapsheets and Jane Doe listings to try to locate the women but had no success.

On November 13, 1997, Mary Giaccone was reported missing when she could not be located to attend her mother's funeral. She also closely resembled the other women. Police had no promising suspects except a man named Kendall Francois, (US Army), and a lifelong Poughkeepsie resident who lived with his parents. Police tracked and interviewed Francois and even poked around his bedroom but had absolutely no reason to detain him. He remained just one of many suspects until a January 1998 arrest for assaulting a prostitute in his parents home, for which he served fifteen day in jail. In June of 1998 Sandra Dean French disappeared from nearby Dover. Her car was found abandoned three days later in Poughkeepsie about three blocks from the Francois home. Then in August Catina Newmaster also disappeared. Like all the other missing women she was a short, petite, white prostitute, with brown hair and blue eyes in most cases. On September 1, 1998 police detectives working on the case caught a break. Pulling into a gas station they were confronted by a man who claimed another man had just assaulted a woman nearby. The attacker was Kendall Francois. Officers brought Francois to the station for questioning and soon admitted to the involvement in the string of disappearances. The police then obtained a warrant for the Francois residence and shortly after midnight that night began a search of the home. Within an hour a body had been discovered and by the time a search was completed police had recovered eight corpses from the putrid, garbage-filled house, five in the attic and three in the basement. Interested spectators nearby were overcome by the horrid odors of trash and death emanating from the Francois home. Seven of the missing women were among the victims. The other body was that of a woman from New Rochelle who was never reported missing. Only one woman remained missing and she was later mostly ruled out a possible victim because she is black, while all of Francois' victims were white and found inside his home. Francois was indicted on eight counts of murder and pled guilty, avoiding a possible death sentenced. Ironically Francois contracted AIDS, possibly from one of his victims. He was eventually sentenced to life without parole. His family denied any knowledge of his deeds. Apparently the stink of garbage in the house covered the odor of the bodies, keeping Francois' family clueless to his murderous activities. The US Army assured investigators in New York that his serial killing did no harm on his numerous overseas military travels while in Hawaii, and Korea, etc.

 Robert Lee Yates, US Army/National Guard, The state of Washington, already forever haunted by the memories of killers such Ted Bundy and The Green River Killer, quickly recognized the familiar signs of a serial spree when prostitutes began turning up dead in 1996 in Spokane. Most of the murders were obviously the work of a single killer that preferred dispatching of his victims with .25 caliber gunshots to the head and dumping their bodies in rural areas with plastic grocery bags secured over the victims heads. Robert Lee Yates, a father of five and a retired Army man, was arrested for the string of killings on April 18, 2000, though initially he was only charged with a single murder. Yates, 47 at the time of his arrest, was soon faced with several more charges of murder but it was not until October before he finally broke and admitted his involvement in the crimes and added a few more for good measure, including the double murder of a couple in Walla Walla in 1975, when Yates was just 23-years-old. One of his victims, Melody Murfin, was recovered on Yates' directions from the killer's own backyard.

As part of a plea bargain with Spokane County, Yates plead guilty to one attempted murder and thirteen homicides and was sentenced on October 26, 2000, to 408 years in prison. The murder of Shawn McClennan was held back by prosecutors in case Yates later decides to appeal the plea agreement. The evidence pointing to Yates in McClennan's slaying is stronger than any of the other cases. Yates has not been able to hammer out any such deals with Pierce County, however, and prosecutors there intend to prosecute the killer for two murders in Tacoma, where Yates often traveled as a member of the National Guard. Both Tacoma cases are almost certainly Yates' work, as both women were found with his trademark plastic bags placed around their heads after being shot to death. No matter the outcome of the Pierce County investigations Yates' legal problems may not end there. It is highly unlikely that during his Army travels the serial murderer did not continue to ply his trade. His confessed slayings have gaps from 1975 to 1988 and from 1988 until 1996. Also, there is another gap between late 1998 and his arrest in April of 2000, though that could be the result of a close call when he was pulled over by police with a prostitute in his car about the time of his last known killing. The matter was easily explained away but it is possible that Yates may have been scared straight until the time of his arrest. Most of the time that accounts for the two long gaps between kills was spent at various Army bases throughout the world. Police investigators in Germany, Vancouver, New York, and Oregon, among others, have expressed interest in Yates possibly being tied to unsolved murders. Authorities in Dale County, Alabama, appear ready to charge Yates with the shooting death of a woman named Tarayon Corbitt. Also, detectives are still looking to connect the multiple murderer with more unsolved Spokane homicides.

David Berkowitz, US Army, was born June 1,1953. Originally named David Falco, Berkowitz was given up for adoption and subsequently adopted by Nathan and Pearl Bekowitz. Despite the fact that the couple reportedly adored him, Berkowitz grew up feeling abandoned and rejected because his birth mother did not apparently want him. His adoptive parents didn't help matters when they falsely told him that his mother had died giving birth to him, leaving Berkowitz with feelings of intense guilt as a child. After a troubled childhood and a disastrous stint in the Army, he found out his birth mother was still alive. His mother wanted little to do with him and Berkowitz was left feeling alone and shunned again. It wasn't long after this that he began his murders that until his arrest would be attributed to the fearsome "Son of Sam". On July 29th, 1976, Berkowitz fired into a car containing two girls, injuring one and killing Jody Valenti. Berkowitz followed this by shooting Carl Denaro while the man was sitting in a parked car with his girlfriend, who was not injured. Denaro was nearly killed, somehow surviving a gunshot wounds to his head. In November, two young women were shot from nearly point blank range, but managed to survive though one was paralyzed. 1977 did not bring an end to the attacks. Berkowitz just became deadlier. In January, he killed Christine Freund while she sat in a car in Queens with her boyfriend. On March 8th, he shot and killed Virginia Voskerichian. On April 17th a couple parked in a secluded lovers lane were shot and killed while sitting in there vehicle. Though police knew they had a serial killer on their hands, a letter left at the scene was signed "Son of Sam". Their killer now had a nickname but the fearful public was screaming for an arrest. Berkowitz was fishing for attention also. In addition to the crime scene letter, he now wrote to newspaper writer Jimmy Breslin. The rambling letter was printed in part by the Daily News, petrifying the citizens of New York even further, which, of course was the point. Berkowitz was enjoying himself completely, but his luck was running out. On June 26th he opened fire with his 44 outside of a Queens nightclub, injuring a couple while they sat in their car. Soon after, Stacy Moskowitz and her boyfriend were shot while necking in a car in Brooklyn. Moskowitz later died from a head wound but Berkowitz had finally made a critical mistake. He had been issued a parking ticket near the Moskowitz killing at around the same time and after investigating the man a bit, they decided to move. On August 10th, Berkowitz was arrested outside his Yonkers apartment and volunteered his guilt immediately. Berkowitz' year-long killing spree was finally over and he plead guilty at his subsequent trial and was sentenced to 365 years in prison, though he attempted to deflect blame for the killings to a dog owned by an acquaintance Sam Carr, which supposedly gave him his orders to kill. Berkowitz later confessed that the ridiculous story was untrue and he resides in prison to this day.


Harvey Carignan, US Army, was sentenced to die for the 1950 murder of Laura Showalter in Alaska, where he was stationed as a member of the U.S. Army. Despite confessing to the killing he was exonerated on appeal and released in 1959 after serving time on an unrelated rape conviction. Carignan was not caught again until he was sentenced to a total of 150 years in prison for the Minneapolis, Minnesota hammer slayings of Eileen Henly and eighteen-year-old Kathy Shultz in 1975. The sex killer was also convicted of two brutal sexual assaults but under Minnesota State law he could be given only a total of 40 years for the homicides and assaults. Carignan's crimes extend far beyond his convictions and he is the prime suspect in a number of other murders and sexual assaults. Seattle authorities are convinced he killed teenager Kathy Miller after she went missing in May of 1973 after answering an employment ad for the service station Carignan operated. The twisted Carignan is also most certainly guilty of the rapes and attempted murders of several Minneapolis-area women and girls, some of whom only escaped death due to their attacker's lack of thoroughness after he unwittingly left them for dead. Investigators in Washington, North Dakota, and Canada are also very interested in Carignan's potential as a suspect in several unsolved crimes. The drifting murderer is also one of many suspects in a string of unsolved murders in California.  The true scope of Carignan's crimes will likely never be known completely. Confession is unlikely because of his lenient Minnesota sentence and would hurt his unlikely chances at parole, which he has been eligible for since 1993.

Albert De Salvo, US Army, was born in 1931 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father was a habitual criminal who terrorized his wife and their six children with frequent beatings until his parents divorced in 1944. The man had made an indelible impression on De Salvo by then and his childhood was marked by repeated scrapes with the law. He tried the army when he was seventeen and even married a German girl and earned an honorable discharge. Even that time was marred however, as De Salvo was charged with molesting a nine-year-old girl. He escaped punishment when the girl’s mother refused to prosecute him. Soon he and his wife became the parents of two children, which was not surprising since De Salvo possessed an insatiable sex drive. In 1960 De Salvo was arrested by police responding to a breaking and entering call arrested him after a short foot pursuit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They found on him all the tools of "The Measuring Man", as police called him, a culprit that had been going around to women's homes and pretending to be a representative for a modeling agency, taking the young women's measurements. He would then seduce the ladies with the promise that their sexual favors would enhance their chances of getting discovered. He was almost certainly also committing sexual assaults during this time but was never suspected. De Salvo was arrested and plead guilty to the breaking and entering charge and at the same time revealing he was also the elusive Measuring Man. De Salvo was sentenced to two years for his crimes but served only 10 months before being let out and moving back in with his family. Prison had done nothing but push him to commit further crimes unfortunately. He broke into literally hundreds of homes over the next couple of years tying up and raping countless women. These activities gave De Salvo a new moniker, "The Green Man", because of his attire of green pants and shirt during most of the attacks. As police helplessly pursued the unknown Green Man, De Salvo was beginning to work on yet another nickname, The Boston Strangler.  Despite his success in raping an enormous number of women and getting away with it, De Salvo moved into murder on June 14, 1962. After breaking into the Boston home of Ann Slesers, 55, he strangled the woman with the belt of her housecoat and tied it in a bow around her neck. This odd signature would become a trademark of The Strangler ,’s which he used on his subsequent victims. De Salvo went on to kill elderly women Mary Mullen, Nina Nichols, Helen Blake, Ida Irga, and Jane Sullivan by the end of August. Becoming bolder he killed Patricia Bissette, 23, and Sophie Clark, 20, in December. He was using his "Measuring Man" routine to gain access to the homes and if that failed he would simply force the lock. 1963 saw "The Strangler" become more violent during his attacks. On March 9 De Salvo killed Mary Brown, 69, raping her as usual but crushing her skull and stabbing her with a fork several times before strangling her. He left the fork protruding from her breast. On May 6 he killed 23-year-old Beverly Samans, tying her to her bedposts and raping her repeatedly before strangling her and finally stabbing her corpse 22 times. He left his knife in the sink at the girl's apartment but it proved no help to police. Evelyn Corbin, 58, was the next victim when she was killed on September 8. Strangely De Salvo strangled Corbin with his bare hands but still put her nylons to use, tying them in the customary bow and looping them around one of her toes.  Needless to say Boston area police were at their wit's end. A massive effort to identify "The Strangler" was underway but despite countless suspects and interrogations there were no solid suspects when De Salvo continued his killings with Joanne Graff, 23, on November 23. She was found raped with her black leotards which, of course, still hung around her neck, tied in a bow. Nineteen Mary Sullivan was next. Sullivan was tied up, raped, and strangled by hand on January 4, 1964. Even more horrifying, a broom was jammed into her vagina and a card that read "Happy New Year" was slid between her toes as a grotesque taunt to police. There seemed to be no stopping the faceless Boston Strangler. Incredibly, De Salvo basically caught himself. After raping a woman in her apartment on October 27, he got up and excused himself after telling the woman he was sorry. She gave a description of her attacker to police and De Salvo was soon arrested; though he was not considered a suspect in the stranglings for some reason. While awaiting trial at an institution one of his fellow inmates suspected he may be The Strangler and voiced this belief to F. Lee Bailey, De Salvo's attorney. When Bailey asked his client about the killings De Salvo admitted his guilt, even telling of two murders the police had not attributed to the mystery killer.  Despite admitting his guilt in the murders of 13 women, De Salvo never served time for the killings. Amazingly, the incomparable Bailey managed a plea bargain and his killer client plead guilt only to the innumerable sexual assaults and robberies, garnering a term of life in prison. He died in 1973, the victim of a stabbing in his cell.  8/17/2001-The family of Albert DeSalvo and the family of victim Mary Sullivan have recently joined forces to attempt to cast doubt on whether DeSalvo was in fact the Boston Strangler. DeSalvo's crusaders have pointed to discrepancies between the facts of Sullivan's murder and DeSalvo's confession (which he recanted later on) and are currently attempting to have DNA analysis of existing evidence from the Sullivan murder scene tested in an attempt to prove DeSalvo innocent of the crime and thus, presumably, innocent of all the Strangler murders.


Donald Leroy Evans, US Marines, Arrested for the Gulfport, Mississippi, rape and murder of ten-year-old homeless girl Beatrice Routh, Donald Leroy Evans soon confessed to over sixty murders. Donald Leroy Evans claimed that immediately after his discharge from the Marines in 1970, he began drifting and evidently killing just about everybody in his path. His claims of prolific serial killing immediately bring to mind the inflated kill totals of Henry Lee Lucas, who sent investigators spinning with his claims of killing more than 100 victims.

It appears that Evans may not have been exaggerating quite as much as Lucas, though it certainly does not appear that he killed anywhere near sixty. After being tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in the Routh killing in 1993, Florida authorities in 1995 successfully prosecuted Evans for the strangulation death of Ira Jean Smith. He earned a life sentence for that killing. In both of his trials, and during his entire incarceration for that matter, Evans made a joke of the proceedings, making ridiculous appeals and requests on an almost daily basis. His least shining moment of the Florida trial was when he petitioned the court to refer to him not as Donald Leroy Evans during proceedings, but as "Hi Hitler". The not-too-bright Evans didn't realize that Hitlers followers addressed their leader with the chant of "Heil Hitler". In early January 1999, fellow Mississippi death row inmate Jimmy Mack stabbed Evans to death in the shower. At the time of his death Evans was the prime suspect in at least twelve unsolved murders.


William Hance, US Army, On September 16, 1977, the nude body of Karen Hickman, 24, was found at Fort Benning near Colombus, Georgia. Hickman had been beaten and run over with a car. No real clues or leads developed and the murder was put on the backburner because of the presence of serial killer Carlton "The Stocking Strangler" Gary, who was operating in Columbus at that time. Gary was causing quite a stir with his killings because the victims were elderly white women and, though he had not been caught, evidence had determined that The Strangler was black. William Hance decided to attempt to take advantage of the situation by drawing attention away from his own crimes. He penned a letter to Columbus authorities in March 1978 claiming to be a group of white radicals calling themselves "The Forces of Evil" and vowing that a black woman would die if the authorities could not locate The Strangler. He claimed that the fictitious group had already kidnapped a prostitute named Gail Jackson and would soon kill her. Jackson was indeed missing, but in reality, Hance had already killed her and was merely attempting to obscure his tracks. Hance also sent a letter about a week later asking for a ransom in exchange for Jackson's release. When no reply was forthcoming a third letter was sent claiming that a second victim had been abducted named Irene and that she would die on June 1. Like Jackson, Irene Thirkield was also truly missing, having been last seen with a black soldier on March 16. That was no surprise to authorities. They had pretty much figured out that someone from the nearby military base was responsible for the letters and the abductions. For one thing the original letter was written on military stationary. It was no surprise when Jackson, who's real name proved to be Brenda Faison, was found in a shallow grave just outside the military installation on March 30, her skull crushed. A few days later an anonymous call lead military police to Thirkield's headless body, hidden behind some logs near a rifle range. It wasn't long before authorities had determined that Hance was the soldier seen with Thierkield and the Army private was arrested. He confessed to all three slayings. He first stood trial for the Jackson/Faison slaying in civilian court and was found guilty and sentenced to die. He was then tried in military court for the Hickman and Thirkield murders. Found guilty and sentenced to life with hard labor, a review board did not agree and a re-trial was ordered. Military prosecutors decided against this, allowing Hance to begin his wait on Georgia's death row where he was put to death in 1994.


Gary Heidnik, US Army, was born in 1944 to an abusive father and an alcoholic mother who eventually committed suicide. Heidnik eventually dropped out of high school despite being extremely intelligent and chased his boyhood dream of being in the army but was soon discharged with a full pension because of his growing mental problems. The money he received monthly from the government, and some savvy investing that eventually resulted in Heidnik being worth over $500,000, meant that the budding sexual sadist had plenty of money to support himself while he worked toward honing his deadly hobby. Soon the Bishop of his own church, mainly a front to hide his cash, Heidnik was repeatedly hospitalized for suicide attempts and general mental fragility through his adult life. Sexual aberrations were also becoming obvious and in late 1978 he was jailed for over four years for the rape and kidnapping of a retarded female acquaintance. The confinement did nothing to curb his twisted desires, however, and he took the first step toward fulfilling a long-standing fantasy of acquiring a harem of sex-slaves when he imprisoned prostitute Josefine Rivera on Thanksgiving of 1986. The next month another women joined Rivera when Heidnik ensnared Sandra Lindsay. Around the Christmas holidays two more were added, Lisa Thomas and Deborah Dudley. In the middle of January 1987, Heidnik imprisoned 18-year-old Jacqueline Askins. The five women were subjected to cruel punishment and were constantly restrained in Heidnik's basement either by being chained to water pipes or sealed in a pit their abductor had dug out of the basement floor. The women were fed dog food and water for the most part and spent all their time with nothing but shirts on, providing Heidnik with easy access for his frequent rapes. The women were subjected to painful tortures, also, perhaps the worst being when Heidnik became paranoid that they were plotting against him and stabbed his captives in the ears with a screwdriver to deafen them. Only Rivera, by now reasonably trusted, was spared that punishment. All the other women, those, who would eventually survive at least, would suffer permanent hearing damage. Heidnik graduated to murder and cannibalism in February when Lindsay died after being suspended by one arm for her chains for several days straight. Heidnik cut up her body with a power saw and ground her flesh into meat that he ate and fed to the other women and his dogs. On March 18 Dudley, who had been a constant hassle with her defiant attitude, was placed in the basement pit and after it had been filled with water and electrocuted. With the help of Rivera, Heidnik dumped Dudley's corpse in a New Jersey park a few days later. Soon afterwards Heidnik imprisoned a replacement for Dudley; a prostitute named Agnes Adams. Luckily for her, she would not suffer nearly as long as her fellow prisoners. On March 24 Heidnik loosened the reins on Rivera a bit too much and the woman fled while on an unsupervised trip outside of the house. She notified police who apprehended Heidnik and searched the house, discovering the remaining women huddled in the dank basement. To their horror they also found parts of Lindsay scattered throughout Heidnik's freezer and refrigerator. Dudley's corpse was also soon recovered. It had been four months since Rivera's abduction. Charged with numerous crimes, including the two murders, Heidnik was tried and convicted on all counts on July 1, 1988. He was sentenced to die for his crimes. After several death row suicide attempts he was executed by lethal injection of July 6, 1999.


Leonard Lake and
Charles N, US Marine, Despite being born on opposite ends of the globe, American Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, who grew up in China, would eventually meet and team up to be a savagely deadly serial slaying duo. The two sadists met after Ng escaped military custody after being caught attempting to steal from an armory while a member of the Marines. A mutual acquaintance pointed Ng to Lake, who helped the young Asian hide out from authorities. Eventually Ng was re-captured and served time in Leavenworth Prison. After his release he and Lake reunited and became fast friends. Ng spent most of his time with Lake at a remote property the latter lived on near Wilseyville, California. By this time Lake had already murdered his own brother, Donald, in 1984. The true killing spree did not begin until later in that year. Lake, a survivalist, had built a fortified bunker at the rural residence, though it's only use would prove to be as a holding cell for women that he and Ng would torture and kill. Oftentimes the women were kidnapped along with their significant others and their children, who were evidently quickly dispatched to free the killers to practice their disgusting sadism on the female victims until they grew bored and slaughtered them. The two also used credit cards and belongings of their victims to benefit financially from the crimes.  Both were apprehended on June 2, 1985 when Ng was seen shoplifting a vise. He escaped on foot but Lake was taken in when it became obvious he was holding false identification (later found to be in the name of a former victim). He would never be questioned by police, however. Lake swallowed a cyanide pill almost immediately after being taken into custody and died days later, having never regained consciousness. Ng, meanwhile, eventually went into hiding in Canada. After discovering Lake's true name, detectives began a search of the Wilseyville property. They undoubtedly found more than they bargained for. First they discovered a diary filled with tortuous fantasies written by Lake, followed quickly by the finding of pieces of identification belonging to several missing persons and a cache of weapons. Videotapes were soon also discovered that showed women being sexually abused and tortured by Lake and Ng. An excavation soon began and bodies, plus many unidentified parts, were dug up from several locations near the house and bunker. Areas where it was obvious bodies had been burnt were also apparent throughout the property. Police believe that at least twenty-five people died at the Wilseyville property, including Lake's best friend and two past co-workers of Ng. Two entire families, both couples with a young child, were wiped out by the two slayers. Victims had been apparently chosen at relative random and covered a wide range of types, from homosexual males to ex-hippie drifters to young women. Only twelve corpses were officially recovered.  Ng was finally arrested in 1985 after shooting a wounding a security guard while being questioned about a shoplifting in a Calgary store. He was identified and convicted of several charges related to the shoplifting and sentenced to four years in prison. It was August 26, 1991, before Ng was successfully extradited to California to go on trial for the serial killings committed there. Ng, an expert at delaying trial proceedings, was finally convicted of eleven murders and sentenced to death in June of 1999, fourteen years after he was first sought in the murders in Wilsyville.


 Arthur Shawcross, US military, seemed almost destined to be a serial killer. His childhood was a virtual blueprint for sociopath behavior that included the classic love/hate relationship with his mother and father, behavioral problems, bedwetting, arson, and several head injuries. The result was a man so full of rage that the only question was not if he would kill, but when. Shawcross' career of murder may have actually began while doing a tour of duty in Vietnam. The slayer spoke of going into the jungle alone at night and killing women and children in gruesome fashion, though he would claim that the victim's were enemy collaborators. That pattern of excuses would later repeat itself after his arrest for his stateside murders. To hear him tell it, every victim forced him into murder by attempting to harm him or by insulting him.

The veteran's murders in the U.S. began in 1972 when he killed Jack Blake, 10, and Karen Hill, 8, in Watertown, New York. The children's bodies were found only days apart and Shawcross was arrested for the Hill slaying which police had more evidence in than Blake's death. Not enough evidence, evidently, and Shawcross' lawyer managed a plea bargain that landed Shawcross a twenty-five year sentence. He was released in 1987 and after being driven from a few communities after residents found out about his gruesome past conviction, Shawcross finally settled into some obscurity in Rochester, New York. Predictably, it was not long until he began killing again only now his victims became prostitutes, drug users, and homeless women. In the spring of 1988 women began to disappear from the streets of Rochester, most turning up dead in culverts or wooded areas surrounding the city. In less than two years eleven victims were found dead or were missing before authorities caught a break when they discovered the body of prostitute June Cicero while conducting a helicopter search of a rural area near Rochester. In a stroke of luck, a car was also parked at the scene, it's driver standing along the road almost directly above Cicero's body. The man was Shawcross, who had picked an unfortunate time to come to the dumpsite and relive the killing.  Shawcross soon bent under questioning and admitted to slaying the eleven women, later leading police to the two yet-undiscovered bodies. Investigators, and later psychiatrists, listened as the multiple murderer told of cannibalizing the vaginas of some of his victims, sometimes after returning to the decomposing remains days later. The twisted slayer at one time even admitted to doing similarly disgusting things to young Jack Blake's body after the killing the boy. No fate would have been too harsh for Shawcross and he was found guilty after employing an ineffective insanity defense and sentenced to 450 years in prison.

Ridgeway, known as “The Green River Killer”, former US Navy, serial killing spree when prostitutes began turning up dead in 1996 in California/Oregon area. It is estimated that Richard Ridgeway may be involved in as many as 16 murders of women. DNA testing has conclusively linked Ridgeway to several of the teen/women victims. Ridgeway is currently being held without bail as the investigation continues to determine which of the dozen or more deaths are linked to him. It is currently believed that Ridgeway may have killed as many as 45 women.
 

Jeffery Dahmer, US Army, 18 months in service, serial murderer and cannibal in Wisconsin of young boys, Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960. The son of a chemist, Dahmer should have had a normal life. But his childhood in Bath, Ohio, where he and his family moved in 1968, was marked by a growing obsession with severe cruelty to animals, bizarre behavior, and alcoholism.  It was in Bath that Dahmer began to kill. Alone in the family home after his parents divorced in 1978, he picked up hitchhiker Steven Hicks, bludgeoned and strangled him, smashing his bones with a sledgehammer and scattering them in the woods behind his home. He apparently kept his murderous impulses under control until September 15, 1987. Living with his grandmother back in Milwaukee, Dahmer killed Steven Tuomi and set off what would become one of the world's most gruesome serial murders. Dahmer eventually took the lives of seventeen men including the sad case of Konerak Synthasomphone, who escaped from the killer only to be mistakenly handed back by police who believed the two were homosexual lovers having a quarrel. Ironically, Konerak's older brother also escaped form Dahmer three years earlier. The attack had jailed Dahmer for ten months in work release. Dahmer was finally apprehended on July 22, 1991. Tracy Edwards escaped the murderer's tiny Milwaukee apartment and flagged down a police car nearby. The officers went to Dahmer's apartment where they were denied entry and after wrestling Dahmer down and cuffing him they took a look around. What they found was incredible. Human heads and skulls were stashed in the refrigerator and pictures of dismembered bodies littered the bedroom. Dahmer was arrested and a media explosion hit Milwaukee. No one had even had a clue a serial killer was at work until his arrest. Dahmer confessed readily and went to trial pleading guilty but insane. The trial was stock full of gruesome details of cannibalism and necrophilia, with police and the defense attorney telling of how Dahmer drilled holes in some of his victims heads and poured acid into their skulls while they were still alive. He wanted zombies that could not resist and could not leave him. Found sane by a jury Dahmer was sentenced to 15 life terms in the Colombia Correctional Institution. Originally ordered into solitary for his own protection, he talked his way into a unit for prisoners with emotional problems after just a year. On November 28th, 1993, Dahmer was killed by on the unit's other inmates.


Barber, US military Vietnam vet special forces, who robbed and raped an elderly woman, he then used a technique he said he was taught while in the military to kill (strangle) her.  Barber, stated he was suffering from PTSD in his trial and had not remembered the incident. Barber after returning from Vietnam was a drifter, homeless, and user of drugs.  Despite his claim of PTSD after serving honorably in the US military, Barber requesting a life’s sentence as opposed to the death penalty that he received. Governor Gray Davis a former military member himself, denied the sentence commute to a life in prison.

Killers of Children:

Richard Allen Davis, Army, Killer of Polly Klaas

Dean Corll, Houston Candy Man In 1964, Dean was drafted, but was released from the Army a year later on a hardship discharge.

Wesley Allan Dodd, In the Navy
“If I hadn’t joined the Navy then, I may have been killing within a year,” said Dodd. Weeks before enlisting in September of 1981, Dodd attempted to abduct a couple of little girls. Although they reported him to the police, Dodd wasn’t incarcerated.
Dodd was stationed at a submarine base in Bangor, Washington, and preyed on the children who lived on the base. He also made excursions to Seattle, where he accosted kids in movie theater bathrooms. Dodd began to use money as a lure, coaxing children into secluded areas to help him supposedly get something, then ordering the child to pull down his pants. He discovered that the arcade was a good place to find kids who wished they had more money, and gave them quarters for each of his demands. At one point he was arrested offering to pay some boys $50 each to go to a motel and play strip poker with him. But after he admitted to the police that he planned on molesting the boys, the charges were mysteriously dropped. Did the authorities think that admitting to something as depraved as this was punishment enough? Eventually, Dodd was arrested, and received a general discharge from the Navy.


CHILDREN OF MILITARY MEMBERS OR MILITARY VETERANS:

Eric Harris, son of US Air Force officer, Harris was the mastermind and primary shooter in the Columbine High School shooting that claimed 12 students lives and a teachers.  Harris’s planning looked more like a battle plan using automatic weapons and bomb material.  Had Harris’ plan worked the entire school would have been leveled.

Ted Bundy, stepfather entered life and was none to be cruel as was US Army cook, The state of Washington, already forever haunted by the memories of killers such Ted Bundy and The Green River Killer, quickly recognized the familiar signs of a serial spree when prostitutes began turning up dead in 1996 in Spokane. Most of the murders were obviously the work of a single killer that preferred dispatching of his victims with .25 caliber gunshots to the head and dumping their bodies in rural areas with plastic grocery bags secured over the victims heads.

Guy Goerges, son of US Army member, On March 22, 1998, French authorities finally ended the hunt for Paris' feared "Beast of Bastille" when they arrested vagrant Guy Goerges for the rape-murders of four women. Soon, Georges confessed to three additional killings after being confronted with unbeatable DNA evidence in the original four cases. Georges was the son of a French woman and an American soldier who abandoned him as a small child. He was brought up by a foster family but by adulthood began racking up sexual offenses, which culminated in his first certain killing in 1991. Georges usually managed to gain consensual access to his victims' homes before turning on them, sexually assaulting them before tying the women up and cutting their throats. Despite the DNA evidence and confession, Georges plead not guilty to all charges at trial, but eventually changed his mind and plead guilty before the end of the trial. On April 5, 2001, Georges was sentenced to a surprisingly light prison term of life with no possibility of parole for 22 years. Georges has since hinted that he would rather commit suicide than serve out the sentence. He is still a suspect in a few other murders previously considered part of the Bastille series.


Herb Mullin, son of WWII veteran, was born on April 18, 1947. Mullin seemed totally normal throughout his childhood. The son of a World War 2 veteran, Mullin was an extremely bright and sensitive boy who was involved in sports and voted "most likely to succeed" in High School. By the age of thirty-six, he was a raging schizophrenic and a prolific Serial Killer. The summer after his High School graduation, Mullin's close friend Dean Richardson was killed in an auto accident. This seemed to trigger the start of his odd behavior and he soon had built a shrine to his dead friend in his bedroom and began to obsess about reincarnation, religion, and impending natural disasters. Drugs became a big part of Mullin's life and his deteriorating mental state was coaxed along by huge doses of acid. His behavior frightened his family and friends and he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and was institutionalized on and off throughout the remainder of his time as a free man. Nothing seemed to help however. Mullin complained of hearing voices and adopted many different personas, re-inventing himself alternately as a yoga disciple, amateur boxer, hippie, and a sombrero-wearing Mexican. The fads never lasted long before he began his odd search for the newest road to peace of mind. He eventually settled on murderer and began his killings on October 13, 1972, near his hometown of Felton, California. Mullin spotted a homeless man along a quiet stretch of road, pulled over and lifted the hood of his car, feigning car trouble. When the old man offered assistance Mullin bludgeoned him to death with a baseball bat. Nobody paid much attention when the man's body was found a few days later. Next Mullin picked up a young hitchhiker in Santa Cruz named Mary Guilfoyle and stabbed her to death, taking time to slice her body open and pulls out her organs. Her body was not discovered until February the next year. Switching gears on November 2 the killer strolled into a Los Gatos Catholic Church and stabbed Father Henri Tomsi dead in the confessional booth. Mullin shot drug-dealing acquaintance Jim Gianera and his wife dead on January 25, 1973, in the couple's Santa Cruz home. He applied a finishing touch by stabbing their corpses repeatedly before leaving to kill another acquaintance, Kathy Francis, and her two young sons, shooting them dead and again knifing their bodies after death in another case of overkill. February 10 proved to be an unlucky day for four teenaged boys that Mullin stumbled upon in a wooded state park. The youngsters had set up a campsite and invited Mullin into their large tent after he happened upon them while wandering the woods. He repaid their kindness by slaughtering them with gunfire as they sat trapped inside. The bodies were discovered inside their blood-soaked tent a week later. By that time Mullin had already killed yet again. On February 13 Fred Perez was working on the driveway of his home when he was shot and killed by the lunatic slayer. A neighbor witnessed Perez' murder and Mullin was arrested a short distance away. His killings were finally over. The rest of the story was a dizzying display of bizarre behavior by Mullin throughout his time in jail and during his subsequent trial. It was evident during the police interrogation immediately after his arrest when he responded to investigators questions by screaming out "Silence!" and got worse from there. The clean-cut killer claimed he had stopped a disastrous earthquake from striking California when he killed his victims, thus saving countless lives. He also stated that voices, including his father’s had ordered him to kill and that he had telepathically gained permission from the boys in the tent before dispatching of them. Mullin constantly ranted and spent considerable time jotting his twisted theories down on paper. Some of the highlights occurred during his entertaining trial, at the beginning of which he predictably pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. His lawyer told the court of Mullin's strange ideas, such as his theory that his family had conspired to hide bisexuality from him as a child and that he should have had the privilege of having orgasms, courtesy of his own family members, by the age of six.

Mullin eventually took the stand in his own defense and preached to the courtroom that there was a grand conspiracy to deep him from becoming "too powerful in his next life", one of his popular reincarnation theories. Also, because Einstein died on his birthday, Mullin claimed he was therefore the "designated leader of my generation". As for the killings themselves, they were consented to by his victims of course. "Every homosapien communicates telepathically, it's just not accepted socially", he told the weary court. The jury found Mullin sane and guilty of ten murders in August of 1973. He was sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 2025.


FOREIGN MURDERS:

Anatoli Onoprienko, former Ukrainian sailor, On April 1st 1999, a Ukrainian court of law convicted one of the most brutal serial killers in history for the murder of 52 people. Anatoli Onoprienko, 39, confessed the murders, but never showed any remorse: "I know it's cruel, but I'm a robot that's driven to kill. I don't feel a thing'. He was nicknamed 'The Terminator'. Onoprienko killed most of his victims during the three months before he got arrested in April 1996. He traveled the country by train for three years and picked his victims by random. The children themselves were often horribly mutilated. He used fire weapons, knives, axes and hammers. The killings followed a set pattern. "The Terminator" chose isolated houses in the outskirts of villages. He would enter the houses before dawn, round up the family and shoot them all -- including children. Then he would torch the place and kill whoever crossed his path during his murderous outbursts. He often stole valuables from his victims and sometimes scattered family photographs about the floor. After each murder, he kept the underwear his victims wore. He regarded them as relics. Sometimes he even gave them to his girlfriend, Anna, as a present. He claims he can recollect every single murder. "A soldier who kills during a war doesn't see who he hits. Someone who kills just a few times doesn't have any control; he can't analyze his actions. I can, because I've killed a lot. I perfectly remember; once I killed a couple and their three children in their car. I went to sit on the father, and I drove around the country with the five bodies. That was quite interesting." Onoprienko stays insensitive and analyzes every single murder in a scientific way. He claims he never thought of himself as an ordinary killer, he always felt as a top-surgeon. "When you see it like that, I'm a very unique person. I did things nobody else does. These all were unique events."

April 1996, the police finally arrested Onoprienko, father of a little boy himself, at his girlfriend's house, after a nationwide manhunt. After being captured, the former sailor confessed he had already killed nine people in 1990. Onoprienko's son looks up to him, but ever since he found out his dad's the serial killer; he becomes more and more aggressive. In an interview he said: "Killing someone with a knife is boring. One can better do it with bare hands, by strangling, or to fire a gun. It must be impressive to see the bullet fly and see it penetrate a body from a distance." Unlike most serial killers, Onoprienko wasn't driven by any sexual motives during his killing journeys. Neither is he psychiatrically disturbed, but examinations prove that he's intelligent and fully sane. Some experts search for suitable motives in his miserable childhood. His mother died when he was four years old, and when he got seven, his father sent him to an orphanage. According to his ex-wife, Onoprienko also kills children to avoid them to end up in orphanages, like he did. When he got 17, he became a sailor, and he met his future wife. On his sea trips, his merciless fantasies got shaped. Onoprienko himself claims he hasn't become a murderer by his own free will. "I've been chosen to fulfill a mission. In a way, I feel related with Messir, the hero from the Russian author Bulgakow's book. He was evil, and so am I. I did what I had to do: kill people. I don't owe any more explanation to my victims, their families and the police." He also claims he spoke to Hitler once, and that this one advised him to unchain a new world war. Shortly after he got arrested, Onoprienko called himself a hostage, who had to be put on trial wrongly. He claimed the police should first track down the unknown force that drove him. He does admit that he looks forward to the gigantic attention of the press. He's been sentenced to death, but as Russia can't perform any capital punishments anymore since it joined the Council of Europe, his punishment was replaced by a life sentence in the Zhytomyr prison, although Onoprienko himself wanted to be executed. The fact that he killed 52 people is a neglectable detail to Onoprienko. "None of my victims resisted. Armed or not, man or woman, none of them dare to do anything. A human being doesn't mean anything. I've only seen weak people. I compare humans to sand-grains. There are so much of them that they don't mean a thing."


Bela Kiss, Hungarian Army, In the early 20th century, the Hungarian rural population still strongly believed in the existence of ghosts, demons and vampires. Therefore, it was no wonder that the villagers of Czinkota, a dull town near Budapest, became uneasy when they crossed Bela Kiss's path, the local farrier. There was being told about him that he had 'the second face', that he could predict calamity, and that he, when he didn't like someone, could bewitch him. Since the mysterious disappearance of his wife, he acted like a reborn 'living dead'.

In 1914, his fellow-villagers were relieved to hear Kiss would join the army. Before he left, he closed the smithy, locked the doors and barricaded the windows. Not that it would have made any difference: the inhabitants of Czinkota avoided the dilapidated building as they were convinced it was cursed. Until 1916, the house was left undisturbed. The war had been going on for two years, and the fighting parties were in need of fuel, so the police was sent out to see if they could get any gasoline, that was being hoard here and there. Some inhabitants of Czinkota knew that, on Kiss's attic, several barrels were stored, which probably contained fuel. An elderly woman, who used to clean Kiss's smithy, had seen them, and she was promptly sent packing. The policemen forced themselves a way in, while the villagers stayed at a safe distance. When they reached the attic, they saw the woman had been right: seven barrels were neatly put next to each other. The officers thought they had made a nice catch. When they jerked the lid of the nearest container, they backed, astonished. The stench was terrible. The boldest of them dared to glance what was inside of it. He saw a naked woman's body, folded up, the rope that had strangled her, still around her neck. The other barrels held the same content. The house was searched, a huge pile of women's clothes were found, and a large amount of jewelry was also discovered. The quantity of found objects seemed to indicate there were more than seven victims. When they started to dig the yard, seventeen more bodies were found, all women who had been strangled. After a profound investigation, it appeared Kiss had been using matrimonial ads in papers to select his victims, like Henri Landru had done. Since the 'disappearance' of his wife - she was found in one of the containers - there was nobody left to discover his evil practices; his bad image made sure nobody entered the smithy, and he had enough space to make the bodies disappear. The material evidence said enough about Kiss's guilt, but nobody knew where he was. The army's administration service was asked for more information about him. It seemed he would have been sent to Serbia and been deadly hit. He would have died in a military field hospital. At least, those were the facts that were officially registered. A nurse, who had taken care of the dying Kiss, described him as a young soldier, not even 20 years old. Kiss was 42 when he gave himself up for service. A reasonable explanation was that Kiss had been in the same hospital, and that he had switched his own identity tag with the one from a deadly wounded comrade. Kiss returned under the name of a deceased man.  The rest of the story will probably always stay a riddle. The possibilities are multitude: maybe Kiss was killed in the battlefield after all. On further consideration however, that's wishful thinking. It's much more likely that he deserted and took a header somewhere. It is a fact that he was noticed on several places after the war, but nobody knows what's true and what has been made up. One thing's for sure: Bela Kiss has never paid for his crimes.


Dennis Nilsen, son of Norweign military/police, A friendly civil servant, 37 years of age, who killed over a period of five years fifteen young poor devils in London. All victims were mail students or tramps that he picked up in bars en took home with the pretence he would shelter them. Once Dennis Nilsen said he killed for sociability, because he kept the bodies of his victims with him for a while, sometimes even sitting upright in a chair in front of the TV-set.
Nilsen's activities were by accident discovered in February 1983, when a company that cleaned sewers was called to Cranley Gardens in North-London to push through the choked up street sewerage. There seemed to be pieces of rotting meat in the sewer pipe that came out of the house on number 23. At first, they thought that the stinking stuff was dog meat, or the thrown-away contents of a freezer, but further investigation revealed it was human-origin meat. When the police knocked on the door of 23 Cranley Gardens, Dennis Nilsen seemed almost happy to be able to tell his dreadful story, which he did in a very formal way. He admitted to have killed and dissected fifteen people, however he apologized himself for not recollecting the exact number. 'I didn't note down the number of bodies', he said. In a wardrobe, three heads were found which were put in plastic bags. Other body parts were found in a box. Nilsen pointed out that, besides the three bodies in his house, there were thirteen others buried in the backyard of a house in Cricklewood, where he had lived in the past. He's the son of a Norwegian military man who was addicted to alcohol, and who had neglected his family. His parent's marriage broke down when Nilsen was still very young. Nilsen had been in Germany, Aden and Cyprus as an army cook, and when he got out of his time of service, he'd worked a while with the police. Later on, he got a job with a security company, and in 1974, he became a civil servant with a labor exchange in London. He did everything to try and hide his homosexuality. Because of his job, he got in touch with the less successful part of the community and his till then lonely existence was broke through by the dropouts he took home. He spent a large part of his time in clubs and bars, where he easily got acquainted with other lonely souls, which he felt more and more pity with during his drinking-bouts.  In December 1978, after his roommate left him, he obeyed to those destructive tendencies that had slumbered beneath the surface for a long time. He took his victim’s home, often in such a drunken condition he often didn't remember who he had took with him, and he strangled them, after which he cut their bodies to pieces. He was obviously obsessed with death. He used to masturbate in front of a mirror after having covered himself with a white powder, in order to look like a corpse. Later on, he liked watching his victim's bodies, put on their underwear and masturbated over them. He was faced with a big problem when he had to get rid of them. Now and then, there were four or five bags with remains under the floor of his apartment in Cricklewood, while cases full of human organs were in his shed. Sometimes, he burned them to get rid of them, but when he tried to flush the results of his massacres down the toilet, the waste pipes got blocked and Nilsen got caught.  In October 1983, Nilsen was put on trial as 'the killer of the century' in the Old Bailey. His cool, anti-social and merciless way of acting was considered by psychiatrists during the trial. When his lawyer asked him: 'Why?', Nilsen answered: 'I was hoping you could tell me that'. This man, who once called himself a creative psychopath, was being defended on the ground of diminished sanity. The jury concluded that he was responsible for his deeds and judged him guilty. He was convicted to a life sentence. Nilsen himself didn't show any remorse: 'I don't sleep a minute less because of what I've done, nor do I have any nightmares'.  In 1985, Brian Masters published a book about Nilsen, called 'Killing for company', based on personal interviews with the captured killer. The author created an image of an unwanted child that grew up to be an isolated adult who was obsessed by the sexuality of death. On of the motives for this study was to show how an ordinary individual could go down so deeply. Masters added that Nilsen's victims were nothing more than stage-properties in his fantasy world and no longer human beings. Nilsen himself wrote a report in prison in which he tried to analyze himself. His presence wasn't really appreciated by the other prisoners, and when he was in Wormwood Scrubs, a fellow-prisoner cut open his face with a razorblade.



Vladimir Bratislav, the Beast of Lysva, brother in Russian civil army, raped, mutilated and murdered in more than a year's time thirty young women. Right now, he's a prisoner in the prison of Solikamsk in the Urals where he's serving a life sentence. Bratislav says that, whenever he sees a woman, he feels the urge to assault her immediately.  The 50,000 inhabitants of Lysva never had a clue about who Bratislav really was. No one would suspect him. He's the son of a prosperous working-manager who, ironically, promised a reward to anyone who could give any information about the case. Bratislav's brother is a member of the Russian civil army, the militia. Vladimir sometimes went along when his brother and other policemen searched for the serial killer.  In Lysva, there's only in two places some amusement to find: the Poesjkinpark and the local nightclub. That was the hunting ground of the serial killer. There he looked out for attractive women which he unanimously called whores. Psychiatrists think his atrocities were fed by a humiliating sexual experience in his teenage years. When he was fourteen, an older woman rejected him. He couldn't maintain an erection; he failed. That would be the cause.

In March 1997, he raped and killed his first victim in a way that's too horrifying for words. After the first murder, Bratislav went to see a priest, but this one wouldn' t listen to him, although he really regretted the killing. Bratislav then figured that, if even a priest wasn't interested, how would anyone else be? He assumed that he couldn't expect any help from anyone. Although Bratislav felt guilty after that first murder, it didn't take long to kill again. Hardly one week later, he struck again. This time his victim was a woman who was jogging in the park, early in the morning. First, he raped her; he beat her up and bit in her breasts before he eventually strangled her.  Bratislav tries to minimize his own share in the murders. He claims that he only wanted to rob his victims from their jewelry, but that he killed them once they saw his face. He doesn't know how to explain the fact why he didn't sell those jewels then. He claims he raped and mutilated them to distract the police. And their eyes he removed to be certain they'd never recognize him. He raped and killed only those women who wouldn't cooperate. His file says that Bratislav attempted to murder six women and that he effectively killed ten women. Bratislav himself claims he killed much more. He estimates he murdered more than thirty times.

His fourth victim, Elena Lyzhina, made the 'mistake' to look at Bratislav. The night of July 28th, 1997, he waited for her, he raped her, and he cut the eye loose from the optic nerve that runs from the eye to the brain. Miraculously, the woman survived this horrible attack, but she's permanently blind.  August 4th, he waited for Olga Kosenko when she left Lysva's nightclub early in the morning. She was found raped and strangled. His next two victims were women he knew. August 17th, he attacked the 18 years old Anna Maraku-lina from behind until he realized that he knew her. At first, he tried to make his attack look as a joke, but she didn't believe him. He raped her and hit her on the head until the girl died. Five days later, he killed another girl he knew, the 17 years old Maria Shetsova. He waited for her outside the club, suggested to go for a walk with her. In the Poesjkinpark, he overwhelmed and strangled her. He bit and chewed on her breasts and pushed a wooden stick into her mouth. One week later, Alvira Kanzeparova was walking to the club when Bratislav attacked her. He raped and strangled her, and he put out her eyes. Once he said: "I put out their eyes because they wouldn't stare at me anymore. Is that so weird?" The only woman, who escapes from his universal misogynist, is his mother. He says that she's the example of an honorable, virtuous woman.   Natalya Mezentseva made the catching of Bratislav happen. June 10th, 1998, he attacked her, but in-stead of killing her; he only took her purse, and ran off. Natalya recognized him, and called the militia. At first, they thought it had been nothing more than an drug addict who needed money, but a couple of days later, another woman was assaulted in the park. She was severely beaten up. When Natalya drove with some police officers around the park, she saw him, and he got arrested. At the time, he's serving a life sentence. He says he's lonely, but still, he doesn't regret any of his crimes. This man doesn't have any feeling, any morality.


The research above was taken from several sources to include: Serial killer websites Internet Crime Archives – Serial Killers, The Worldwide Serial Killer Homepage, Serial Killer A – Z Encyclopedia, independent news reports such as ABC evening news, Biography documentaries.

Summary

Gavin De Becker, author of the book “The Gift of Fear” and leading security expert in the United States, counts among his clientele the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Justice Department noted that there are in the United States 1 child molester every 1.5 square miles. Currently, the United States Justice Department (prosecutors) are embroiled in charging and indicting numerous Catholic priests who have allegedly sexually assaulted victims, decades ago.  These indictments are being heard and moved on despite the fact many of the original crimes committed statutes of limitations have expired.  Clearly, the nation and the victims desire to establish the commitment that no one is above the law within the United States when it involves sexual abuse.

It is then most curious, that the United States whose focus at this moment is the shoring up of [it’s] national security to safeguard [it’s] lands, people, property and international interests are themselves embroiled in these very issues. The United States has and continues to:
     -   participate in the training and exporting of sexual abuse through the School of the Americas,
     -   sanction the use of sexual abuse of it’s own people, military/civilian by minimizing and re-categorizing sexual crimes in the military (Troops to Teachers), and
     -   justify through U.S. court decisions (Feres and Bivens Doctrine, Intra-Military Immunity, Title VII, and USC 522A) the use of sexual abuse by it’s military forces,
     -   endorse the U.S. non-participation in the International Criminal Court,
     -   refuse to sign and ratify the treaty making rape a war crime, and
     -   proliferate the unequal and disempowering international policies that take unfair advantage of 2nd and 3rd world nations (Status of Forces and Visiting Forces Agreements).


Prevention of Sexual Abuse:

It is therefore, my believe that Truth and Reconciliation Commissions be formed made up of an international body of advocates, experts and victims. That these bodies be established and that it’s members have no political or socio-economic commitment or interest to their host nation or any other nation.  That these Commissions be solely dedicated to the global visiting, education, information and disseminating of the use of sexual abuse by rogue government and non-government institutions and agents.  And that it’s goal and desired outcome is to seek healing and a call for a moratorium by identifying those nations and agents continuing in the use of sexual violence.    


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