By AMANDA WILCOX
The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C. Published: July 1, 2012
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps base on the East coast, reported more instances of sexual assaults for fiscal year 2011 than any other Marine Corps installation worldwide, according to a recent report.
There was a total of 346 reported cases of sexual assault Marine Corps-wide last year, a 10-percent increase from the previous year. Seventy of them took place at Camp Lejeune, according to a recent report from the Department of the Navy and Headquarters Marine Corps titled “Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Campaign Plan 2012.”
Marie Brodie, manager for the Marine Corps Community Services Lejeune Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program, said an increase in the number of reported instances is not necessarily a cause for alarm.
“Sexual assault happens both in and out of the military,” Brodie said. “But what our program aims to do is ... create an environment where a Marine or sailor feels safe and comfortable enough in their environment to come forward and report the sexual assault. So it could be there’s an increase in the amount of people who feel safe enough to come forward.”
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