U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon, Announced  that the proportion of sexual assaults in the U.S. military rose by 50 per cent, according to the statistics of this year.

The Pentagon attributed the increase to encourage victims of sexual assault prosecutors to inform them of what happened, and that this reflects the confidence in the U.S. military response to these incidents, with officials confirming that there is no clear evidence of the high percentage of these crimes.

The Pentagon report to receiving a 5061 communication of sexual assault in 2013, an increase of 50 per cent of incidents reported last year, and referred to survey the opinion of the people, without giving their identity in 2012 resulted in the face of 26 thousand element in the military for cases of assault or sexual harassment did not desires of the victims.

Has attracted these numbers interesting Obama administration and Congress to work on increasing the number of reports of such incidents, with confirmation of the officials because, despite the high numbers this year, but it should make more efforts and confirm the existence of many unreported cases, especially among officers male.

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