5 Army Cadets Accused of Sex Harassment
Five members of the U.S. Military Academy’s football team face an official inquiry for allegedly groping female cadets during a pep rally at West Point last month, a newspaper reported today.
An official West Point inquiry was ordered after three women complained of being groped during the Oct. 20 “spirit run,” the New York Times reported in today’s editions. The inquiry elicited reports from 18 women who said they were brushed across the breasts as they and other cadets ran past a cordon of Army football players.
Fifteen of the women considered the incident to be sexual harassment, while the other three described it as inadvertent, Lt. Gen. Howard D. Graves, the superintendent of the academy, told the newspaper.
A Pentagon spokeswoman in Washington told the Associated Press she had no information about the incident.
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