No, the military is infested with predators too -- what a world
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WASHINGTON — More inmates are in U.S. military prisons for sex crimes against children than for any other offense, an AP investigation has found, but an opaque justice system prevents the public from knowing the full scope of the crimes or how much time the prisoners spend behind bars.

Of the 1,233 inmates confined in the military's prison network, 61 percent were convicted of sex crimes, according to the latest available data, obtained through the federal open records law. Children were the victims in over half of those cases.

Since the beginning of this year, service members victimized children in 133 out of 301 sex crime convictions, with charges ranging from rape to distributing child pornography.

Child sex assaults in the military have received scant attention in Washington, where Congress and the Defense Department have focused largely on preventing and prosecuting adult-on-adult sex crimes.

"This disturbing report exposes, once again, that our military's justice system has glaring and unacceptable failures," Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Mass, said Wednesday of AP's investigation.