An Army National Guard soldier ended her life after officials failed to punish her male colleagues for the sexual assault.
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Officer Morgan Robinson,29, served in the National Guard since 2010 and was sexually assaulted during her first deployment to Kuwait in 2016. Her mother, Debbie Robinson, said her daughter reported the assault but her superiors did nothing to punish the men involved. In 2018, Robinson was allegedly gang-raped by several soldiers during her deployment in Afghanistan but she didn’t report it due to the trauma from her first assault. Four months later, she committed suicide.
Debbie said the Army failed her daughter and only gave one of the soldiers involved a written reprimand. An investigation is currently ongoing and one of its statements reads: “Sergeant Robinson suffered sexual, physical, and psychological trauma while deployed. The sequel of this trauma was a factor in her death,”
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The grieving mother says the Army needs a third-party agency to conduct investigations regarding sexual assault.
“[It was] a job that she loved. It was for her country. Everything just plays over and over and over in [my] head, thinking, ‘Did I miss something? Could I have done something? They can’t police themselves. How can you investigate yourself? You can’t,”
SOURCE: New York Post