WOMEN HIT BY FORCES SEX CRIMES Shock at 250 attacks INSTAGRAM BUZZ THAT SPARKS RACE FOR
30 Sunday Mail More than 250 female troops say they have been raped or sexually assaulted in the last three years.
More than 130 – mainly soldiers – allegedly fell victim last year alone.
Of those, 77 were physical attacks, including 29 rapes, according to Ministry of Defence figures on Military Police investigations.
The re s t inc luded exposure and voyeurism.
The MoD said in a freedom of information request that at least 10 members of the Armed Forces are on the sex offenders’ register.
Almost 20 per cent of all court martials are now linked to sexual assault, rape or child pornography.
The figures come two years after a campaign to combat sex crimes in the forces after figures for 2015 showed 60 physical attacks, including 20 rapes.
A senior officer said: “Sex crime is a major problem. Women are most at risk but around 20 males were also victims of rape and sexual assault.”
The vast majority of sex offences occur in the Army, roughly twice the size of both the RAF and Navy.
In 2016, Army recruitment sergeant Edwin Mee, 46, was jailed for 11 years for two rapes and 14 sexual assaults on mainly overseas female recruits.
The Scots-born divorced father of five was based in Croydon, London.
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