OTTAWA—A landmark Statistics Canada survey of sexual misconduct in the military has found nearly 1,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces reported being sexually assaulted over the past year. That represents about 1.7 per cent of military personnel — dramatically higher than the comparable rate of 0.9 per cent for the general population. The survey also found full-time female personnel were four times more likely to be assaulted than their male counterparts. That ratio was even higher — nearly one in 10 — for female personnel in the part-time reserve force. “Women who were victims of sexual assault in the past 12 months were most likely to identify their supervisor or someone of a higher rank as the perpetrator of the assault (49 per cent),” the study says.

Source: thestar November 28, 2016 13:56 UTC