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Tuesday, July 10

Military Rape Petition

Secretary of Defense: Require military to register as sex offenders

"I served as a Lance Corporal in the Marines for over three years. During that time, I was raped twice and sexually assaulted twice more. It happened so often that I assumed it must be normal.
After I left the Marines, I learned that some studies estimate that more than half of all women who serve in the US military are raped during their service. But according to current military law, military rapists are not required to list their crimes on their discharge papers or to register as sex offenders.
I don't think it's right that convicted sex offenders get to wipe their records clean when they leave the military. That's why I started a petition on Change.org demanding that the Department of Defense require convicted sex offenders to register on a national database, as well as disclose this information on their discharge papers -- will you sign it?"

Click below to sign the petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/secretary-of-defense-require-military-to-register-as-sex-offenders?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7398&alert_id=EBAuTgeNfw_ihzaGiuGio

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