By the Numbers - Mar. 9, 2015
10,800
The number of men who are sexually assaulted each year in the military, according to Russell Strand, a retired Criminal Investigative Service special agent speaking at the Army's Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Program Summit last month, detailed in a Department of Defense press release. Just 1,134 of these men reported the attacks, Strand said -- roughly 13 percent. By way of comparison, of the roughly 8,000 military women sexually assaulted each year, 39% reported the crime.
Strand and Jim Hopper, a psychologist and researcher who also spoke at the Summit, indicated military male assault victims "are overwhelmingly heterosexual and so are their assailants." According to Hopper:
“Most people who sexually assault adult men are heterosexuals. And those same heterosexual men who are assaulting men are often the same men assaulting women.”
10,800
The number of men who are sexually assaulted each year in the military, according to Russell Strand, a retired Criminal Investigative Service special agent speaking at the Army's Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Program Summit last month, detailed in a Department of Defense press release. Just 1,134 of these men reported the attacks, Strand said -- roughly 13 percent. By way of comparison, of the roughly 8,000 military women sexually assaulted each year, 39% reported the crime.
Strand and Jim Hopper, a psychologist and researcher who also spoke at the Summit, indicated military male assault victims "are overwhelmingly heterosexual and so are their assailants." According to Hopper:
“Most people who sexually assault adult men are heterosexuals. And those same heterosexual men who are assaulting men are often the same men assaulting women.”