Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed as ‘high jinks’
06-05-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com

Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed as ‘high jinks’

Marines ‘want to protect the chain of command’, she says. ‘They don’t want to protect women’When Isabel became a trainee for the Royal Marines band, she thought she was fulfilling a childhood dream. But within a few weeks the 18-year-old found herself subject to what she describes as a sexual assault, an incident that was rapidly dismissed by her commanding officers as “high jinks” – and subsequently felt ostracised to the point where she became su
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