Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended and under investigation – for sexual assault!

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself…The Army’s top sexual assault prosecutor has been suspended amid allegations that he attempted to grope and kiss a lawyer who worked for him while they were at a sexual-assault conference more than two years ago.

Stars and Stripes reported that the Army is investigating the allegations levied against Lt. Col. Joseph “Jay” Morse, and that he is suspended “pending the outcome of the investigation.”

Morse supervises more than 20 special victims prosecutors who are responsible for dealing with cases involving sexual assault, domestic abuse and crimes against children…

The lawyer reported the incident in February and Morse was subsequently suspended.

“This reads like an article from the Onion,” Nancy Parrish, the president of Protect Our Defenders, said in an email to Stars and Stripes. “Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing funny about it.

“If true, this case is yet another disheartening example of the hollow pledges of ‘zero tolerance’ we have heard for more than 20 years. When the military has those at top of the chain who are in charge of fighting sexual assault accused of sexual misconduct at a conference on sexual assault it should be clear to every level headed human being [that] the status quo must be changed.”

Congress in their infinite wisdom is being pushed into doing something about sexual assault in our military. Predictably, Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats are trying to accomplish this without disturbing any of the good old boys they work with in our military services. You wouldn’t want to rock the boat at all. A case or two of honesty might break loose.

2 thoughts on “Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended and under investigation – for sexual assault!

  1. Doc says:

    I’d hazard a guess that a lack of intelligence had little to do with this and would put my money on bad brain chemicals, à la “Breakfast of Champions”. However, setting aside the ways in which social inhibition is decreased by the attainment of power, the lieutenant colonel’s apparent sense of immunity to the consequence of his totally inappropriate actions fit the clinical description of pathological narcissism.

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