A Canadian veteran has come forward to speak about being sexually assaulted during training, saying he felt 'completely betrayed' by the chain of command.
A Canadian veteran is speaking out about being sexually assaulted during training, telling CTV National News he felt “completely betrayed” by the chain of command when he reported it to his superiors.
Hudson alleges other incidents where the same individuals at different times followed him into bathrooms, pinched his buttocks, exposed themselves to him and, at other times, took out their genitals and rubbed their exposed penis on his leg or rested their clothed genitals against his arm in class. “A man may possibly feel like he doesn’t want to talk about it because it’s sort of like attaching his manhood or his masculinity, so he hides it in a different way,” he said. “I didn’t want to talk about it because of the state of mind I was in. I didn’t want to bring up the memories of it…you just go from a point where you’re completely destroyed inside, completely destroyed, to building yourself back up again.
Several high-ranking officers have been the subject of said allegations, leading to a veritable revolving door of senior officers stepping down or stepping aside, including former defence chief Jonathan Vance and the military’s human resource officer Lt.-Gen. Steven Whelan, who took over for Vice-Admiral Haydn Edmundson who stepped aside due to a police investigation of alleged sexual assault.
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