'How is this OK?' Response to sexual assault allegations among service members’ children haunts the first Air Force families to report.
In this Nov. 16, 2017 photo made available by the U.S. Air Force, a fighter plane takes-off from Kadena Air Base, Japan. The Defense Department has been figuring out how to provide help and justice when the children of service members sexually assault each other on military bases since Congress required reforms in 2018. Those reforms are starting to rollout, but as one current case at Kadena shows, that rollout has been uneven.
The first girl to report had to wait six days for officials on the largest Air Force installation in the Pacific to provide counseling. The mothers didn’t feel much urgency from Air Force criminal investigators either. They told the families they’d waited 13 days to meet the boy’s father. Yet the case at Kadena Air Base began unfolding in February — six months after President Donald Trump signed those landmark reforms.
Mercurio called the Japan case “an extremely difficult situation.” He said the Air Force has scrambled to deliver “helping resources to the families involved while remaining focused on protecting the rights and privacies of all parties and preserving the integrity of the ongoing investigation.” “There’s a recognition that states are best able to adjudicate,” said Charles Lozano, an Army attorney who helped draft the policy.
Naval leaders have directed base commanders to work with social services, according to spokesman Lt. Samuel Boyle. The Navy also has issued interim guidance, which it would not share. “It seems unlikely that a principal would have both the training and the time to conduct these investigations in a thorough and timely manner,” said Megan Farrell, Title IX coordinator for the Palo Alto Unified School District in California.
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