Recent figures obtained by the Associated Press have revealed the grim reality of child sex abuse as an epidemic among the US military.
According to the report, hundreds of children of US service members are abused each year, most of them being the children of enlisted service members.
The information also suggests that more than half of those serving time in US military prisons, or whose cases are working their way through the so-called military justice system, involve child sex abuse.
It should be noted that the full scale of the problem is unclear and remains shrouded in secrecy; according to the Department of Defense, which issued AP the shocking figures after a FOI request, "information that could unintentionally uniquely identify victims was withheld from release to eliminate possible 're-victimization' of the innocent."
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