Pentagon: Hundreds of Military Kids Sexually Abused Annually

The children of service members are victims in hundreds of incidents of sexual abuse each year, according to data the Defense Department provided exclusively to the Associated Press. The abuse of military dependents is committed most often by male enlisted troops, the data show, followed by family members. The figures offer greater insight into the sexual abuse of children committed by service members, a problem of uncertain scale due to a lack of transparency into the military's...

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