{"id":226214,"date":"2021-01-08T03:01:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T03:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/?p=226214"},"modified":"2021-01-08T03:01:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T03:01:52","slug":"army-national-guard-soldier-killed-herself-after-being-repeatedly-raped-and-assaulted-by-fellow-comrades-while-superiors-did-nothing-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/army-national-guard-soldier-killed-herself-after-being-repeatedly-raped-and-assaulted-by-fellow-comrades-while-superiors-did-nothing-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"Army National Guard Soldier Killed Herself After Being Repeatedly Raped And Assaulted By Fellow Comrades While Superiors Did Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_226215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226215\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-226215 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson1.jpg 730w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson1-400x239.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson1-640x383.jpg 640w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson1-255x153.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Daily Report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A female Army National Guard soldier who served overseas for a number of years committed suicide after repeatedly being raped and <strong>sexually assaulted<\/strong> while on duty. Despite reporting the crimes that took place, her superiors did nothing to support or help their soldier.<\/p>\n<p>At the young age of 29, <strong>Staff Sgt. Morgan Robinson<\/strong> took her own life in 2018. Two years before her suicide, she was sexually assaulted while being stationed in Kuwait. Four months before her death, her supposed comrades also gang-raped her in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s mother Debbie has finally spoken out about her opinion of the lack of accountability and failure to seek justice for the horrible suffering her daughter went through while serving her country.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie insists that the failure to stop the torturous abuse her daughter experienced more than once ultimately robbed her of her life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cTo think that that\u2019s what took her life \u2014 that\u2019s what broke her. They wanted her body. And they took her soul,\u201d Debbie told CBS investigative reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to her mother, ever since Morgan was young, she had already wanted to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. She finally did it in 2010, when she turned 21 and enlisted in the Army National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>On her first deployment to the Middle East, the horror that Morgan experience was not in a battle with the foreign enemy, but with her own comrades. She<strong> <em>\u201cwas sexually assaulted and continually harassed by one of her superiors.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although Morgan reported the multiple sexual assaults she had suffered under the hands of her superior, her chain of command did \u201cnothing\u201d to protect her from further assaults or punish her perpetrator, said her mother.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><span style='text-align:center; font-size:12px; color:#777;'>Advertisement<\/span><center><!-- TA_MOB_G1_BTF3_300x250 t4\/2+ fb (content) --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_MOB_G1_BTF3_300x250'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n} else { document.write('<div id=\\'wi-194906\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-194906').closest('.side-widget').hide();\n}\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) {document.write('<div id=\\'wi-193994\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-193994').closest('.side-widget').hide(); \n} else { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><span style='text-align:center; font-size:12px; color:#777;'>Advertisement<\/span><center><!--TA_G1_BTF1_728V in content --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_G1_BTF1_728V'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cShe got nothing,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>Debbie said.<\/p>\n<p>While Morgan was engaged to get married and had a child back home, she was sent to Afghanistan on the same deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Assaulted further in Afghanistan, she was gang-raped by a group of soldiers. Scared and traumatized to report this atrocious crime, Morgan committed suicide four months later.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie had known that her daughter was\u00a0<em>\u201cvery scared\u201d\u00a0<\/em>to report the gang rape\u00a0<em>\u201cbecause they threatened her.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAnd number two, she knew that it wouldn\u2019t go anywhere. Nothing happened in Kuwait with the sexual assault and the harassment, so why would they do something, you know, in Afghanistan?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Debbie said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Debbie received a report from the Army when they finally investigated her daughter\u2019s tragic death \u2013 but all the crucial details to all crimes committed by other members of the Army were blacked out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_226216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226216\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-226216 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson2.jpg 730w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson2-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson2-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/morgan-robinson2-255x144.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rappler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those sections that weren\u2019t redacted read:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cSergeant Robinson suffered sexual, physical, and psychological trauma while deployed. The sequel of this trauma was a factor in her death.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This redaction-riddled report shocked Debbie to her core that the military would be so shameless to hide what truly happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI just didn\u2019t understand how they could actually stand there and look me in the eyes, and hand that to me,\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Debbie fully blames the leadership in the army and their failure to take her daughter\u2019s sexual assault reports in Kuwait seriously and \u201chandle what happened,\u201d which then paved the way to the even more horrible incident that occurred in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u00a0\u201cAnd to think that that\u2019s what took her life. That\u2019s what broke her. They wanted her body. And they took her soul,\u201d she added. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Debbie strongly believes that there is a need for an outside agency to investigate these claims and destroy what appears to be a code of silence that is protecting criminals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u00a0\u201cThey can\u2019t police their self. How can you investigate yourself? You can\u2019t,\u201d says Debbie. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) {document.write('<div id=\\'wi-194140\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-194140').closest('.side-widget').hide(); \n} else { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><center><!-- \/117607917\/TA_G_1x1_outstream t4 --><!-- div data-outstream='inarticle'><\/div --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_G_1x1_outstream'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n}\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><center><!-- \/117607917\/TA_G_1x1_outstream t4\/fb 2+ --><!-- div data-outstream='inarticle'><\/div --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_MOB_G_1x1_outstream'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n} else { document.write('<div id=\\'wi-195018\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-195018').closest('.side-widget').hide();\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eight months after Morgan took her own life, the officer who attacked her in Kuwait finally received a written reprimand. Debbie decried that as a mere slap on the wrist that came way too late.<\/p>\n<p><em>Debbie said that <strong>\u201c[It was] a job that she loved. It was for her country. Everything just plays over and over and over in [my] head, thinking, \u2018Did I miss something? Could I have done something?\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>To top it all off, the Army released a statement defending its disciplinary actions against the offending supervisor saying his punishment was \u201cappropriate.\u201d Thankfully, after the release of the report, the Secretary of the Army did acknowledge and say that they had failed Morgan Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS Evening News, Sec. Ryan D. McCarthy tweeted that <em><strong>\u201cthis topic has captivated the attention of America and our Army leaders and it is abundantly clear \u2014 we must do better.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe department remains committed to our goals of ending sexual assault in the military, providing the highest quality response to service members and holding offenders appropriately accountable,\u201d said U.S. Army principal policy adviser Elizabeth Van Winkle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts?<\/em> <strong>Please comment below and share this news!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\">True Activist<\/a> \/ Report a typo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female Army National Guard soldier who served overseas for a number of years committed suicide after repeatedly being raped and sexually assaulted while on duty. 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