[Bloody Sam Roberts]

No numbers to compare this problem with the civilian world.

So what's your point? If enough creeps are doing it in the civilian world, that makes it OK for Lt. ChildRapist to do it? Gimme a break.

I don't care what the numbers you speak of are.

Officers in our Armed Forces are expected to maintain a higher standard. This POS admitted his crime.

Castrate him.

[lepton]

He admitted...what? The cited “admission” is pretty non-specific, but whatever it was isn’t what was described.

If he held down his daughter and raped her, he should be made dead...but that doesn’t seem to fit a description of “moderate harm” which he is described as admitting to even remotely.

There are a lot of specific things wrong with this article. I’m not going to say that the man did nothing wrong, but the article itself seems more a deranged polemic than reporting.

[WayneS]

It would be nice to know whether the military's numbers are substantially lower, or higher, per-capita than in the civilian world, just to verify whether the armed forces are maintaining a higher standard.

We'd all like to think that a U.S. military officer would NEVER abuse or neglect a child, but we also all know that is does happen.

[blueunicorn6]

“”The military child abuse epidemic”
If they are going to call it an “epidemic”, then they should have the numbers to prove it. It’s good to see that you don’t let facts get in the way of your harrumphing on the issue.