Sex crimes committed by juveniles on military sites, namely Fort Hood, often go unpunished, reports the Austin American-Statesman. Between 2006 and 2012, 39 sexual assaults committed by juveniles on the Fort Hood military base resulted in little or no action on the local and federal level, according to an internal legal memo obtained by the American-Statesman. The American-Statesman’s investigation examines the problems with the military legal system that create “a jurisdictional black hole in which there is no clear authority for prosecuting juvenile crime on military installations.”
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