Army under spotlight for abuse allegations
'Ten of the 290 young women aged sixteen or seventeen who have joined the army in the last year, have already made formal reports of rape or sexual assault.'
Quakers are among campaigners who have called again for the army to lose the power to police itself after more allegations. Several sexual abuse claims in the army have recently made headlines, including an alleged cover-up over the murder of twenty-one-year-old Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru in 2012, and twenty-one-year-old Olivia Perks, who took her own life at Sandhurst in 2019, allegedly after being sexually exploited.
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