WEST PALM BEACH (FL)
CBS 12
February 2, 2020
By Lexi Nahl
A Port St Lucie woman is taking her fight for justice for survivors of military rape to Washington D.C.
Harmony Allen has been pushing for justice since her rapist walked free in 2018.
She says she was raped by her Sergeant on an air force base in Texas 20 years ago.
Veteran Harmony Allen pictured the day after she said her instructor raped her.
“He slammed me up against the wall and he held his forearm against my throat,” Allen told CBS12 News of the violent attack.
Harmony Allen said she reported the rape multiple times, but the military kept sweeping it under the rug because she was afraid to name her perpetrator.
Her rapist was eventually convicted and sentenced to jail time in 2017, but was released just two years later after a military court of appeals ruled on the statute of limitations for these cases.
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