Author: Reese Dunklin
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Kids who assault on U.S. bases can still escape accountability
WASHINGTON • Despite new rules addressing sexual assault among the children of U.S. service members, the federal government failed to fix a flaw that on many military bases has let alleged juvenile abusers escape accountability or treatment. New records obtained by The Associated Press underscore how few child-on-child sex assault reports pursued by military investigators…
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New law, military kids get sex assault protections
WASHINGTON • The Defense Department must improve the way it responds to child-on-child sexual assault at military bases in the U.S. and abroad as part of a sweeping new law President Donald Trump signed Monday. While the Pentagon began addressing sexual assault in the ranks a decade ago, an Associated Press investigation revealed that similar…
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Military seeks to limit Congress on fixing child sex assault
WASHINGTON — U.S. military officials have sought to ward off congressional efforts to address child-on-child sexual assaults on bases, even as they disclose that the problem is larger than previously acknowledged. Members of Congress expressed alarm and demanded answers after an Associated Press investigation revealed that reports of sexual violence among kids on U.S. military bases and…
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Investigation reveals hidden horror of sex assaults by K-12 students
EDITOR’S NOTE: First in a monthlong Associated Press investigative series focusing on sexual assaults by students on students in the nation’s elementary and secondary schools. Eventually, he swore under oath, the boys raped him and left him bleeding, the culmination of a year of harassment. Though Chaz repeatedly told teachers and administrators about insults and…
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VIDEO: Damage shown from blast that stopped police-killing sniper
DALLAS — The blood stains have been removed. So has most of the debris. But some remnants of the blast that ended Micah Johnson’s deadly police ambush in Dallas remain at El Centro College: a wall and door frame blown back several feet, and wires and metal dangling from a ceiling with no tiles. Officials…