A top Pentagon official officially sexually harassed three women and created a hostile working environment, according to a report from the Pentagon Inspector General’s office published on Thursday. The official, Guy Roberts, the former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, resigned in April.
A top Pentagon official officially sexually harassed three women and created a hostile working environment, according to afrom the Pentagon Inspector General’s office published on Thursday. The official, Guy Roberts, the former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, resigned in April.
According to the report, Roberts made “inappropriate and offensive” jokes to his staffers; to his female employees, “he frequently hugged them , touched them, and made sexual comments.” The investigators found that Roberts “treated women on the...staff differently” and, for the three women he directly targeted, “created an intimidating, hostile, and offensive work environment.”After an initial complaint was made in late February, investigators talked to Roberts and 18 additional witnesses and reviewed 4,053 emails and documents.
The report comes during a time of reckoning for the Department of Defense as it attempts to curb a rising pattern of sexual harassment and assault against women in the military. Reports of sexual assaults rose in 2018, with 6.2% of
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