His assailants were relentless.
Heath Phillips was 17 -- a fresh young sailor on his first Navy ship. There, a gang of six sailors zeroed in on their prey, raping, beating and sodomizing him repeatedly. He tried reporting them, but for 45 days, his superiors shrugged off his complaints and sent him back for more.
Terrified, Phillips went absent without leave. He got caught and sent back and was molested again so he went AWOL again.
After five times, desperate to get out, he agreed to an "other than honorable" discharge from the Navy.
He's been fighting to get that reversed ever since.
He told his story to anyone who would listen. Became the voice of male sexual trauma in the military. He helped advocate for other survivors and stood before Congress testifying to his own shame and trauma as he pressed for reform.
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7 comments:
I would have been put in prison for murder. I would have killed as many of those SOBs as I could and rammed a broom stick up their rear.
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Story is BS raped repeatly? Any medical evidence. Story founds pretty fishy to me x navy here and i never heard of such BS that would go unreported
Did not know 17 year old could enlist?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Story is BS raped repeatly? Any medical evidence. Story founds pretty fishy to me x navy here and i never heard of such BS that would go unreported
June 11, 2018 at 6:10 PM
In light of everything going on in the world now regarding things just now coming to light, you really believe that?
Anything and everything is possible in this day/age.
Woman routinely walking her dogs - gets eaten by a gator. TRULY not possible, eh? Until they opened up the gator and found her arm! Never a sitting US President have a sit down with a North Korean dictator. Trump just did it last night! Cable news stations use to report news. Now, they bash their political hatred each/every day/night.
Etc., etc., etc.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Did not know 17 year old could enlist?
June 11, 2018 at 6:54 PM
I signed the papers when I was 17, with parents signature.
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