Government contractors with workers in war zones may have to provide better treatment to employees who allege rape or sexual assault, thanks to a new Senate measure. Weeks after hearing graphic testimony from women who said they were raped and assaulted while working in Iraq, the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday night approved language in a bill which would require military contractors, like KBR Inc., to report sex crimes committed by or against their employees, and provide employee victims with assistance and protection.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4766673&page=1Yeah, you really think?
Sounds elemental doesn't it. But female employees who have reported sexual assaults to the military contractors who employ them have been systemically denied justice, and in many cases have been intimidated and pressured to keep quiet. Fact: the federal government hasn't tried any cases involving sexual assaults against women who work for contractors in Iraq or Afghanistan, despite a 2000 law giving that authority to the Department of Justice.
http://johnedwardsmovementcontin.smfforfree4.com/index.php/topic,911.0.htmlKBR employee, Mary Beth Kineston, said in her testimony, "I also expected that when I made a complaint about such activity, it would be thoroughly investigated in good faith, that is, with an intent to resolve the problem immediately, and that I would be protected from the perpetrator in the meantime. I can assure this committee that none of my expectations about KBR were fulfilled."
"I'm in a war zone - and, I have to worry about being attacked by my coworkers," Kineston testified, recounting how she was raped in the cab of her truck by the driver of a vehicle that was parked behind her tanker as they waited one night to fill up with water from the Tigris River.
