Records Show Hill, Air Force Officials Knew of Attacks

Records Show Hill, Air Force Officials Knew of Attacks

(EXCERPT) By Pam Zubeck The Gazette Sunday, August 24, 2003; Page A09

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 23 -- Top Air Force officials and
members of Congress knew of the Air Force Academy's sex-assault
problems years ago but took no action, Pentagon records show.

In 1996, a high-level Air Force official alleged in a four-page report
that the academy was a haven for rapists because of a "culture of
silence" that discouraged women from reporting attacks. The report
went to the Ai...

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