Adm. Linda Fagan is set to testify before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations at 5 p.m. June 11 on how leadership is combating sexual assault and harassment within the United States Coast Guard.
Fagan’s testimony comes after a scandal broke out at the Coast Guard Academy in which Shannon Norenberg, the academy’s head of sexual assault prevention, revealed top leadership led her to mislead victims about the statuses of their cases.
Norenberg said she met with victims and told them the facts of their cases had been shared with Congress, but the truth was that dozens of cases spanning from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s had been quietly closed.
“The Coast Guard lied to me,” Norenberg wrote in a public statement posted online Sunday. “I can no longer in good conscience be part of an organization
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