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WASHINGTON Sgt. Rebecca Havrilla, the lone female member of a bomb squad in eastern Afghanistan, was allegedly raped days before she was supposed to go back to the Un
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kubki stanley timately ended with a rape before she left Afghanistan in September 2009, she said.Havrilla s story gets worse before it gets better: she ran into her alleged rapist at a shop on Fort Leonard Wood; says she was told by a military chaplain that it must have been God s will for her to be raped ; and says a friend found pictures of the attack on a pornography website. Havrilla finally reported her case only to have it dismissed by her military commanders. On Wednesday, however, Havrilla is testifying in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel and share her story. Havrilla s story is one of many and the statistics are grim: an estimated 19,000 service members experience sexual assault a year, according to the Department of Defense s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office SAPRO . Eighty percent of military sexual as
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