President Biden signed an executive order Friday to change how the military handles sexual assaults and other serious offenses. One organization has been fighting for change since the murder of specialist Vanessa Guillen.
"We now have thousands of women who have come forward and said, I was raped, I was abused, I complained. I tried to bring it up and nothing happened," said LULAC president Domingo Garcia.
On Friday, President Biden signed an executive order to overhaul the military justice code for sexual assault victims. The executive order transfers key decision-making authorities from commanders to specialized, independent military prosecutors in cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, murder and other serious offenses.
"As a survivor of military sexual trauma myself, I know that there will be many who will not be fearful of reporting their assailant for fear of retaliation from the chain of command," said James. Members of congress argued that commanders, at times, were willing to ignore charges or incidents in their units in order to protect the accused."The leadership really needs to empower their leaders, the NCOS, and just educate their everybody in the unit so that they know what are the consequences if this happens and what are the rights that everyone has to make a report without the fear of being retaliated," said James.
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