CONTROVERSY continues over the alleged rape of a then 19-year-old female midshipman aboard a Maersk ship that resulted in the suspension of five officers, including a 60-year-old chief engineer, and crewmen, but no arrests.
Feminist complaints now arise in the wake of NY Maritime College president Rear Admiral Mike Alfultis' refusal to submit to Congress a highly redacted report on the incident.
The anonymous cadet, known as Midshipman X, claims that each one of the 50 women in her us Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) class have been 'sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, or degraded at some point during the last three years at the Academy or during Sea Year'.
The report, written by alumni and academic leaders including the former Commandant of Cadets at the US Coast Guard Academy and deputy director of student development at the US Naval Academy, looked at accountability, leadership, discrimination, sexual assault, and sexual harassment (SASH) on campus.
According to California Democratic Congressman Salud Carbajal, chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation subcommittee, he was refused a copy too.
'In publicly released versions, the NY Maritime College redacted seemingly important portions of the report associated with sexual harassment, sexual assault, and racial harassment. That certainly went beyond shielding names for privacy. The academy even refuses to share the unredacted version with me,' Mr Carbajal told a congressional hearing.
'The report states that the committee has found that across the board there are issues regarding how racial and sexual harassment or claims of sexual assault are handled. I can only imagine what's in the redacted portions,' he said.
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Feminist complaints now arise in the wake of NY Maritime College president Rear Admiral Mike Alfultis' refusal to submit to Congress a highly redacted report on the incident.
The anonymous cadet, known as Midshipman X, claims that each one of the 50 women in her us Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) class have been 'sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, or degraded at some point during the last three years at the Academy or during Sea Year'.
The report, written by alumni and academic leaders including the former Commandant of Cadets at the US Coast Guard Academy and deputy director of student development at the US Naval Academy, looked at accountability, leadership, discrimination, sexual assault, and sexual harassment (SASH) on campus.
According to California Democratic Congressman Salud Carbajal, chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation subcommittee, he was refused a copy too.
'In publicly released versions, the NY Maritime College redacted seemingly important portions of the report associated with sexual harassment, sexual assault, and racial harassment. That certainly went beyond shielding names for privacy. The academy even refuses to share the unredacted version with me,' Mr Carbajal told a congressional hearing.
'The report states that the committee has found that across the board there are issues regarding how racial and sexual harassment or claims of sexual assault are handled. I can only imagine what's in the redacted portions,' he said.
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