Veteran Pushes Change to Help Sexual Assault Survivors

Coast Guard veteran K. Denise Rucker Krepp sent a letter to senators earlier this month, urging them to amend the law to make it easier for government employees with knowledge of sexual assault and harassment to testify before Congress. In a recent interview with Newsweek, Krepp said she’s advocating for survivors of sexual assault because “I don’t want this to happen to my daughters.”An investigation launched in 2014 by the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) uncovered dozens of alleged sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) that were reported between 1988 and…