Chapter 20: SEASON FINALE PART 1; Tommy Tutone and the Serial Rapist

This was the longest interview of the season, and it will be broken into two parts. In the final two episodes of Dark Sabre for Season 2, we present to you the most infuriating interview conducted in several years of running this podcast. This heartbreaking interview details the horrific rape of a female Academy Cadet, and how not only was the perpetrator simply just dismissed from the Academy without serving prison time, but he allegedly raped other women at the Air Force Academy and got away with it. His punishment? Removed from the Academy. The Secretary of the Air Force has yet to decide whether he will serve enlisted time, or pay back the Academy. Keep in mind, this Cadet, once an Air Force Special Operations Candidate for Combat Rescue, allegedly committed multiple crimes and was simply allowed to walk away from the Air Force Academy. OSI and the SAPR office utterly failed in their investigations. The JAGS assigned to this case failed miserably. The Superintendent and the Secretary of the Air Force have done NOTHING to ensure that he was criminally held liable for raping multiple women at the Academy. It was kept quiet. 

Several of these women who came forward, some of whom were interviewed this year (some still pending for Season 3) were ridiculed and lambasted by their peers. Others decided not to come forward because they were too embarassed and could not take the pressure of the military court system due to the lack of professionalism of the SAPR (Sexual Assault Prevention Response) group (Who I refer to as Tommy Tutone running an Excel Sheet within the episode), the inaction of the Superintendent Lt Gen Richard Clarke, the failure of the Commandant General Moga, and the embarassing response of the Secretary of the Air Force. This womans mental health was sacrified just to keep things quiet and keep the image of the United States Air Force Academy polished. 

If this episode doesn't make you want to call your Congressional Members to help the Dark Sabre Project push for the DeRito Act (See episode 1 of Season 2) and or infuriate the Graduate Community of the United States Air Force Academy to demand accountability of these officers to be removed from their positions, and to insitute real change at our Federal Service Academies, then we don't know what to tell you.  You are part of the problem of why we still have to interview women being forcabily raped when they still have tampons in. Yes. That has actually happened, more than once. Be the change. Make the Air Force Academy and our Federal Service Academies great again. 

 

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