The officer in charge of a program to curb sexual assault in the U.S. Air Force was arrested May 5 for allegedly grabbing a woman by her breasts and buttocks in a parking lot not far from the Pentagon, the Reuters website reports today (May 7, 2013).
Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, was arrested on Sunday and charged with sexual battery after the alleged incident in the Crystal City area of suburban Arlington, Virginia, officials said.
Krusinski -- the head of the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office -- was removed from his job on May 6, pending an investigation.
News of the arrest came as the Pentagon is preparing to release its annual report on the growing problem of sexual assault in the military. Pentagon officials have said the actual number of sexual assaults in the military -- including those that go unreported -- is as many as 19,000 a year.
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