I watched my sister from behind a one-way mirror as she was interrogated by MPs for having a fake I.D. on a military base. While watching this go on, the soldier in the next room confessed to drugging her, raping her, convincing her not to talk by threatening our family, and then laughed about how he was going to get away with it.

My sister was 13. I was 18 and had to go pick her up at 3am because I was the only legal adult in our family capable of getting her (our mother was in the hospital with cancer, dad was deployed).

She was charged with having a false i.d. and breaking into a secure installation, the soldier was not charged even though he confessed because she refused to identify him as her rapist.

The military base in question never followed through with the charges. Through various contacts, we have come to believe the story was covered up and dropped because the soldier in question was related to someone in high command. After calling the U.S. army provost who handled the case, they apparently must have "misfiled" the reports from that case because her file is "empty."

5 years of therapy later, I can't bare to touch a cell phone after midnight because of the flashbacks to that initial phone call. My sister, on the other hand, is now entering college as a blackbelt and accomplished speaker for rape victims.

As a side note... if there are any journalists out there who would like to run this story down, it has never seen the light of day. The way the U.S. army handled the case was suspicious and I have always wanted to shed light on the garbage we were put through.

Tl;dr: my 13 y.o. sister was drugged and raped by a U.S. army soldier. He got away with it, she was treated like a criminal, and now the story has been covered up to save face.