Cases of sexual assaults in the US military are increasing.

The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) has released its “sexual assault” report for fiscal year 2022.

As a result, there were 8,942 reports of sexual assault against US soldiers by soldiers, civilian personnel, other civilians, and foreign military personnel in the military.

While 5,941 of the aforementioned reports were reported to the corresponding commanders and law enforcement, 3,011 reports were registered as cases that have not yet been declassified but that received medical and psychological support.

While 7,958 of the notifications came from the military, 44 from civilian ministry personnel, 14 from contract personnel, 698 from other civilians and 41 from foreign soldiers, the source of 187 notifications was not specified.

EXCEEDED THE 2021 DATA

Although the total number of sexual assault reports was 8,866 in fiscal year 2021, 3,928 of the 8,942 reports received in fiscal year 2022 were completed. 3,188 of these completed notifications were addressed by the corresponding command.

Although the command obtained sufficient evidence on 2,117 of them, 1,31 of them were referred to the judicial authorities and 40 of them were unfounded. (AA)