Protecting Kids from Abuse

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🗓️ 13 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

For years, the Pentagon mishandled sexual assault cases involving kids living on military bases, until an Associated Press investigation jolted lawmakers into action.

Reporter Holly McDede brings us to Berkeley High School in California, where students were fed up with what they saw as a culture of sexual harassment and assault among their peers.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.6	I'm Al Letzim.
0:10.6	The Senate will come to order.
0:12.7	The Chaplain will lead the Senate.
0:14.0	I want to take you briefly to the United States Senate.
0:17.5	It's June 2018.
0:19.6	Lawmakers are discussing sprawling legislation known as the National Defense Authorization
0:25.0	Act.
0:26.0	The bill covers the Pentagon's $700 billion budget, among big ticket items there, fighter
0:32.4	jets, missile systems, attack drones, and nuclear warheads.
0:37.4	The majority will.
0:39.0	Mr. President, we will be voting on the national.
0:41.4	But when Texas Republican John Cornyn takes the floor, he pivots to a very different subject,
0:47.8	military kids.
0:49.2	Our children who live on military bases must be protected at all costs.
0:54.2	This pushing language in the bill to help military families whose children are sexually
0:58.5	abused by other children.
1:01.4	When they're sexually assaulted, they're juvenile assailants, should not escape justice
1:05.8	because of the constraints of the status quo.
1:09.8	A few months earlier, the Associated Press had published an investigation that jolted
1:14.7	Congress.
1:16.0	The AP documented hundreds of cases of sexual assault among teens and younger children
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