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The controversy surrounding the issue of sexual assault in the military keeps growing. As The Washington Post reports, three Naval Academy football players have been accused of rape and now face criminal charges:

Three U.S. Naval Academy football players were charged Wednesday with raping a female midshipman and making false statements in the latest sexual assault scandal to roil the elite service academy.

The academy filed the charges but did not identify the accused. Their names will officially be made public at a preliminary hearing known as an Article 32 that will probably take place later this summer, military law experts said.

The proceedings will become a closely watched case study of how the U.S. military polices sexual violence within its ranks.

Within weeks of the release of a Pentagon study that said an estimated 26,000 U.S. service personnel reported “unwanted sexual contact” last year, a panoply of high-ranking generals appeared June 4 before a Senate panel to testify about the military’s handling of sexual assaults. Although many were openly critical of the military’s record, they successfully beat back an effort, spearheaded by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), to take away their authority over such cases…

Read the full story at The Washington Post.

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