DynCorp whistleblower revealed alleged sex-slave trade among fellow Americans in Bosnia

[babylonsister]

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/dyncorp-whistleblower-revealed-sex-s

DynCorp whistleblower revealed alleged sex-slave trade among fellow Americans in Bosnia
By David Neiwert Friday Jan 16, 2009 6:45pm


Halliburton and Blackwater, apparently, were just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to American corporate corruption overseas -- the kind aided and abetted by the U.S. government.

Now there's this case involving DynCorp, as reported by CorpWatch:

Middle-aged men having sex with 12- to 15-year-olds was too much for Ben Johnston, a hulking 6-foot-5-inch Texan, and more than a year ago he blew the whistle on his employer, DynCorp, a U.S. contracting company doing business in Bosnia.

According to the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) lawsuit filed in Texas on behalf of the former DynCorp aircraft mechanic, "in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior {and} were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased."

Rather than acknowledge and reward Johnston's effort to get this behavior stopped, DynCorp fired him, forcing him into protective custody by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) until the investigators could get him safely out of Kosovo and returned to the United States.

And the case's outcome?

Incredibly, the CID case was closed in June 2000 and turned over to the Bosnian authorities. DynCorp says it conducted its own investigation, and Hirtz and Werner were fired by DynCorp and returned to the United States but were not prosecuted. Experts in slave trafficking aren't buying the CID's interpretation of the law.

Hey, I'm sure they had America's best interests at heart, and therefore we should just forgive them.

[MineralMan]

1. This is what happens when we hire private armies

to do our work. Mercenaries are often just paid thugs, and crap like this is the result. The Army doesn't follow through because it would be terribly embarrassing for them.

This private contractor business engaged by our military is a dark stain.

[seabeyond]

2. because it isnt like i military doesnt have its own issues of raping women and more

then ignoring it.

maybe it is more reflective of the macho male and their right to whatever they want

[MineralMan]

4. Such cases do happen, but I'm addressing

the contractor issue.

As for lumping it all and blaming testosterone for it, could you provide some statistics to show what percentage of our military members engage in such activities? Then compare that with the statistics of the general population.

I'd be very interested in those stats.

[mzteris]

5. some numbers to look at

not exactly what you're looking for, but interesting info nonetheless.




Comparing Military and Civilian Rape Rates

To place military rape rates in context, it is valuable to compare them with civilian rates. Comparisons of the crime rates of civilian and military populations during peacetime periods in 1986–92 reveal that contemporary peacetime rates of rape by American military personnel are actually lower (controlling for age and gender) than civilian rates. However, the data also indicate that peacetime military rape rates are diminished far less from civilian rates than are military rates for other violent offenses. This “rape differential” is also reflected in the World War II data: U.S. Army rape rates in Europe climbed to several times the U.S. civilian rates for that period, while military rates for other violent crimes were roughly equivalent to civilian rates. Thus, in both contexts studied, a rape differential exists: the ratio of military rape rates to civilian rape rates is substantially larger than the ratio of military rates to civilian rates for other violent crimes.
http://www.answers.com/topic/rape-by-military-personnel


congresswoman said Thursday that her "jaw dropped" when military doctors told her that four in 10 women at a veterans hospital reported being sexually assaulted while in the military. . . Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, spoke before a House panel investigating the way the military handles reports of sexual assault. . . "My jaw dropped when the doctors told me that 41 percent of the female veterans seen there say they were victims of sexual assault while serving in the military," said Harman, who has long sought better protection of women in the military.

. . . The Government Accountability Office released preliminary results from an investigation into sexual assaults in the military and the Coast Guard. The GAO found that the "occurrences of sexual assault may be exceeding the rates being reported."

"At the 14 installations where GAO administered its survey, 103 service members indicated that they had been sexually assaulted within the preceding 12 months. Of these, 52 service members indicated that they did not report the sexual assault," the GAO said.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/31/military.sexabuse/index.html


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An official Department of Defense report states that, “Thirty percent of female veterans in a recent survey reported rape or attempted rape during active duty. Thirty-seven percent of women who reported a rape or attempted rape had been raped more than once; fourteen percent of the victims reported having been gang raped” (Department of Defense, 2002). This is a disturbing reality during a time when 15 percent of our nation’s armed forces are female, with more than 204,500 American women serving in the military. The November 23, 2003, article in the Denver Post, “Protect Women in Military,” reports that, “Nearly one-third of the women in the military have reported a rape or attempted rape, compared with 18 percent in the civilian world.
http://www.offourbacks.org/WomMilBack.htm.

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Sexual Trauma in the Armed Forces

* Number of sexual assaults reported in 2006: 2,947
* Number of sexual assaults by service members reported in 2006: 1,167

Sexual Trauma in the Military Reserves and the National Guard

* 27% of men have experienced military sexual trauma
* 60% of women have experienced military sexual trauma
* 3.5% of men have experienced military sexual assault
* 23% of women have experienced military sexual assault
* 11% of women have experienced rape
* 1.2% of men have experienced rape
* Service branch with the highest percentage of women reporting sexual trauma: Marine Corps
* 20% of women seeking care at VA facilities have experienced sexual trauma
* 1% of men seeking care at VA facilities have experienced sexual trauma
* 8.3 percentage of women report lifetime PTSD related to MST
* More than half of the incidents took place at a military work site and during duty hours
* The majority of the offenders in these cases were military personnel
* Factors that increase risk of sexual assault for active duty females include presence of officers who condone or allow sexual harassment and unwanted sexual attention

Sources: Department of Defense: 2006 Annual Report on Military Services Sexual Assault

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/336/fact-check-military-sexual-trauma.html


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In FY07, there were 2,688 total reports of sexual assault involving Military Service
Members. The Services received 2,085 Unrestricted Reports of sexual assault
involving members of the Military Services as either the subject or victim. The
Services also received 705 Restricted Reports of sexual assault involving military
victims. Fourteen percent (102) of Restricted Reports were changed to Unrestricted
Reports at the victims’ request, leaving 603 remaining Restricted Reports.

In FY07:
? There were 2,085 Unrestricted Reports of sexual assault involving Military
Members as either the subject6 and/or victim of an investigation (Table 1).
? Of the 2,085 Unrestricted Reports, 1,511 (72%) involved Service Members as
victims of alleged sexual assault.
- Of the 1,511 Unrestricted Reports of sexual assault including Service
Member victims, 868 (57%) were for alleged rape.
- The 1,511 Unrestricted Reports included a total of 1,620 Service
Member victims.

http://www.sapr.mil/contents/references/2007%20Annual%20Report.pdf

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“In 2003, Congress began requiring the Department of Defense to report the number of sexual assault cases on file. In 2005, military criminal investigators received 2,374 allegations of sexual assault involving members of the armed forces worldwide. “That number is a 40 percent increase from 2004. The ‘04 number is a 25 percent increase from 2003, so that’s a 65 percent increase in two years.”

http://womenandwar.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/rape-statistics-and-what-the-us-military-should-be-doing/

[BunnyBluetimes]

3. and The only

congresswoman that knew how to handle the bush mafia has been voted out of office. Our country has been ripped to shreds for 8 years. Where is the money bush? :mad:

[Festivito]

6. There is a law that extends to American citizens abroad.

I thought of it as the Michael Jackson law at the time.

They could be investigated, tried and convicted here I'd bet.