Army urged to do more after female veterans tell of sex assaults while on duty

Featured in The Telegraph By Steve Bird…

An Armed Services veterans’ charity is urging the Government to do more to protect female soldiers after a survey found more than half of women who had served in the RAF, Army or Navy were sexually assaulted.

Forward Assist, an organisation based in the North East of England, conducted a series of interviews with 100 female veterans expecting to find the greatest challenge they faced in civilian life was overcoming post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following recent conflicts.

Instead, they discovered 52 out of 100… more