Letter: Treat rape trial women as adults
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Sir: "A growing scandal of institutionalised sexual abuse [at a US Army training base] is raising basic questions about the place of women in the armed forces." (report, 11 November, my italics).
This is the classic response of a man who has just beaten his wife - "Now look what you've made me do!"
GILL JEFFORD
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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