Sexual assault experts dispel date rape myths

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Sexual assault experts dispel date rape myths
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, March 16, 2009

HEIDELBERG, Germany — They plot, they plan, they fantasize.

They’ll get her drunk, they’ll get her alone, they’ll get her.

They’ll do it again whenever they feel like it, because they can.

Experts on sexual assault told more than 100 U.S. Army Europe senior leaders that the soldier who rapes a drunken woman after a night of partying made no mistake: He probably did it before and will do it again.

The experts — a former prosecutor, an academic, an expert on stalking and chief of Family Advocacy Law Enforcement Training for the U.S. Army Military Police School — challenged what they called myths about “date rape,” by far the most common type of rape in the military and elsewhere.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=61362

[ejpoeta]

1. well, when you have the idea that women are asking for it because they put themselves in the

situation... what the hell do you expect!! A man that would take advantage of a woman like that knows what he is doing. He may just not realize that someone who is too drunk or unconscious and cannot physically say no is still not consensual.