Military justice system shields child sex-abuse cases

Thursday, November 19, 2015

WASHINGTON -- Child sex offenders make up the largest category of inmates in U.S. military prisons, yet a full accounting of their crimes and how much time they're locked up is shielded by an opaque system of justice, an Associated Press investigation has found.

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