Records released to Congress this month show Coast Guard leaders deliberately hid the findings for years.
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Connecticut senator is demanding more information about the United States Coast Guard's investigation into rape and harassment at its own academy.The Coast Guard is accused of intentionally and strategically hiding reports of sexual assaults at their cadet academy for years. They released some of their own internal documents this week, but Sen. Richard Blumenthal says even within the documents, the cover-up continues.
'I was groped several times, sometimes with 30 laughing witnesses, and sexually harassed on a daily basis,' former Coast Guard Academy member Caitlin Maro said.Maro was one of several servicewomen who testified in a December congressional hearing about what they describe as the Coast Guard's pattern of silencing women in the academy as recently as this year.
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